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MEXICO CITY - President Vicente Fox's government has arrested more drug lords than any of his predecessors. Yet for all the dramatic captures, drug-trafficking murder and mayhem seem out of control along the Texas border and in southern cities like Acapulco, where gangs are fighting to control turf. The U.S. and Mexico are also skirmishing, with words, over who is to blame. A key reason for the Fox government's apparent reversal of fortune: Mexico's police, prisons and courts are still extremely weak institutions and are so corrupted or intimidated by drug gangs that criminals continue to do business behind bars....

Analysis of birth records shows that in 2002 almost one in four births in the United States was to an immigrant mother, legal and illegal, the highest level in American history. The enormous number and proportion of children from immigrant families may overwhelm the assimilation process, making it difficult to integrate these new second-generation Americans. At present, the U.S. government automatically gives American citizenship to all people born in the country, even the children of tourists and illegal aliens.1

NUEVO LAREDO — When masked gunmen attacked a house in the upscale Campestre neighborhood Thursday night, they fired rocket-propelled grenades and semi-automatic rifles. see link for full text

U.S. sovereignty slip-sliding away -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 6, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Henry Lamb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com It began in 1994. All the attention was focused on the new WTO emerging from the Uruguay round of GATT negotiations. Little attention was paid to the Summit of the Americas meeting in Miami. The assembled ministers agreed to create a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and that it would be completed by January 2005, entering into force by December 2005. For ten years, 34 governments have been conducting negotiating sessions throughout the Americas, fashioning a new trade agreement that...