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Other side of immigration: DNA tests help find missing migrants – CNN.com

Other side of immigration: DNA tests help find missing migrants – CNN.com

Posted by | May 17, 2014 | , |

Corina Montoya cries as she holds her granddaughter in her arms.Angie will turn 2 soon. She was just 18 days old when her father left their home in El Progreso, Honduras. Hector Rivas hasn’t been heard from since he headed to the United States in 2012 with the dream of buying a taxi, sending money home and giving his newborn a better life. Here, he only earned $304 a month working for a cooking oil business.The cell phone Rivas’ family used to reach him has stopped working.“I called a thousand times,” Montoya says. “It rang and rang, and then...

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U.S. Border Patrol’s Response To Violence In Question : NPR

U.S. Border Patrol’s Response To Violence In Question : NPR

Posted by | May 15, 2014 | |

Picnickers in a riverside park in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, react in horror as a man in a yellow baseball cap named Guillermo Arevalo lies on the bank of the Rio Grande, bleeding to death.It’s a warm Monday evening in September 2012. He has just been shot by an agent on a U.S. Border Patrol airboat on the river. The Border Patrol says the agent shot at rock throwers and that the incident is under investigation.U.S. Border Patrol Scrutinized For Increasing FatalitiesWitnesses say Arevalo was not throwing rocks. A woman, unseen in a jerky cellphone video, begins to scream before...

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Border Patrol agents rarely disciplined in abuse cases, records show – Los Angeles Times

Border Patrol agents rarely disciplined in abuse cases, records show – Los Angeles Times

Posted by | May 14, 2014 | |

In April 2011, a Border Patrol agent was ordered to undergo counseling after an immigrant filed a formal complaint charging that the agent had slammed the man’s head against a rock near Tucson.In August of that year, an immigrant who was arrested near El Paso accused a Border Patrol agent of stepping on his face and kneeing him in the ribs after he was handcuffed. Internal affairs officers investigated the case, but took no action.That same month, an unaccompanied minor complained that a Border Patrol agent “hit him on the head with a metal flashlight 20 times, kicked him...

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Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations | RAND

Mexico Is Not Colombia: Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations | RAND

Posted by | May 8, 2014 | |

Drug-related violence has become a very serious problem in Mexico. Of particular concern to U.S. policymakers, violent drug-trafficking organizations produce, transship, and deliver tens of billions of dollars’ worth of narcotics into the United States annually. The activities of these organizations are not confined to drug trafficking; they extend to such criminal enterprises as human trafficking, weapon trafficking, kidnapping, money laundering, extortion, bribery, and racketeering. Then, there is the violence: Recent incidents have included assassinations of politicians and judges; attacks against rival organizations, associated civilians, and the police and other security forces; and seemingly random violence against innocent bystanders....

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Immigration helps American workers: The definitive argument

Immigration helps American workers: The definitive argument

Posted by | May 7, 2014 | |

Despite manifold evidence to the contrary, the trope that immigrants steal Americans’ jobs and depress their wages comes up again and again when Congress toys with passing immigration reform (which, hey, might happen this year, you never know). It’s simple economics, the opponents insist: Increase the labor supply, and the price of work declines. There are only so many job openings in the world, and immigrants will fill them more cheaply if you let more of them in.Though perhaps they’re only drops in the ocean, a pair of white papers from the German economic research institute IZA recently consolidated...

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