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Mexico - where bounty hunting is illegal - claims Chapman jumped bail after being charged with illegally detaining Luster in June 2003. A new special about last week's arrest will air tonight (10 p.m.) on A&E. Chapman, who is out on $300,000 bail, said on yesterday's "Today" show that if he goes to prison in Mexico, he will be killed by inmates avenging the thousands of fleeing felons he's brought to justice. "I won't last two days," he said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico complained on Thursday that a bill in Georgia's state legislature to tax the hundreds of millions of dollars that illegal immigrants wire home would unfairly hurt Mexicans working north of the border. Sponsored by Republican lawmakers who charge that illegal immigrants use basic health and education services without contributing to them, the bill would force anyone unable to prove their legal status to pay tax on their wire transfers. An estimated 11 million Mexicans living in the United States sent home about $20 billion to their families last year, more than all the foreign direct...

McALLEN — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was sentenced Friday to 36 months in a federal prison for conspiring to smuggle undocumented immigrants into the United States through two ports of entry in Starr County and one in Zapata County. Fabian Solis, 42, was a Customs inspector stationed at the Roma, Rio Grande City and Falcon Heights ports of entry. According to a grand jury indictment, he worked with several other people to carry out his illegal enterprise. A woman who has not been indicted, referred to as "Jane Doe 1" in Solis’ indictment, would leave the United...

Mexican legislators are calling on their Latin American counterparts to join them in opposing a proposed barrier along the U.S.-Mexican border. Heliodoro Diaz, who presides over Mexico's House of Representatives, has sent a written request to several regional legislatures as well as to parliaments in Spain and Portugal. Mr. Diaz says opposing the wall would be "an act of unity among Ibero-American legislatures." The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure earlier this month to construct security fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border in an effort to curb illegal border crossing. The measure would also reclassify illegal entry into the United...

21 February Civilian 'Minutemen' to Help Patrol Border This is the headline which caught my attention. The headline was on FoxNews.. I'm not one for vigilante-ism. No. However, I think they're on the right path. For far too long, the US government has hee'd and haw'd about "what to do." Well, it would look like some concerned citizens of the good ol' US remember back when there wasn't enough of a government to do anything. That brought the original "Minutemen." It's now full circle. Again, US citizens have said "enough is enough" and are taking an active position on the...