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Mexicans Not Happy With NAFTA, Either "The University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico "Over the past year the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and other organizations have sponsored a couple of major meetings to take a look at what we've learned from NAFTA and the fight against corporate-led globalization. It gives me no great satisfaction to report that some of the most pessimistic predictions we made—the displacement of small farmers, lower than expected growth rates, the growing divide between the rich and the poor—have come true. And although many of us did not believe NAFTA would solve the immigration problem as its promoters predicted, few imagined the huge increase that occurred." Raleigh Brothel Shooting Tied to Suspected Illegal Aliens "Federal immigration authorities think all three of the Durham DHS Inspector General Recommends Changes in DHS Detainee Reports "The federal immigration agency should report all |
hosted a conference recently on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) from the Canadian and Mexican perspective. Although most of the presentations were from academics, businessmen or government officials, our panel on civil society participation set me to reflecting on the long personal and political history of the nearly 15-year-old NAFTA and its offspring, the SPP," says Laura Carlsen, writing for Counterpunch. 
men jailed Wednesday in connection with a recent double murder and double attempted murder may be in this country illegally, a Wake County jail spokesman said. Police say the shootings occurred Saturday afternoon at a Southeast Raleigh rental home that was being used as a brothel. Investigators say the men fled in a dark blue minivan that was thought to be a late 1990s model, possibly with lightly tinted windows," McClatchy News reports. "The immediate area where the shootings occurred has been busy with reports of criminal activity in recent months, police reported. An arson in the 500 block of Sunnybrook Road occurred in May, a kidnapping was reported in the 600 block in April, and an aggravated assault was reported to police on Jan. 1."
deaths in detention promptly, not only to the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, but also to state authorities where required by law, the inspector general has recommended after a special review' of the deaths of two immigrant detainees. The detainees — a 60-year-old South Korean woman in Albuquerque and a 30-year-old Ecuadorean woman in St. Paul — were among dozens whose deaths in the custody of the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have drawn scrutiny in the past year," the New York Times reports. "Both detainees died because of serious medical conditions that existed before they were detained. But the review found that the cases pointed to larger problems with oversight and medical care, including the failure to recognize or act on serious health care deficiencies in both detention centers that had been documented by routine inspections."