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Mexican Migration and World Trends

The decrease in Mexican remittances was steeper than 2009’s average regional decrease of 9.6 percent for Latin America and the Caribbean.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Studies by Mexico’s BBVA Bancomer Foundation lay out the general trends of Mexican migration in an international context.

A periodic, bilingual publication sponsored by the Foundation’s economic services unit, Migration Watch Mexico, details demographic, geographic, economic, environmental and even technological characteristics of contemporary migration in Mexico and other countries.

Libertarians Say Pornography trial violates Constitution

"Apparently President Obama's Justice Department is no different than former President Bush's when it comes to prosecuting speech. Obama has sustained the 'Obscene Prosecution Task Force,' which was created by the Bush Administration in 2005." - Libertarian National Committee Chairman Mark Hinkle

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The federal trial of pornographer John Stagliano began last week. Libertarian National Committee Chairman Mark Hinkle issued the following statement today:

"The Obama Administration's prosecution of John Stagliano is a travesty.

Merkley Statement on Final Senate Passage of Wall Street Reform

Bill Includes Merkley Mortgage Reform Provisions and Merkley-Levin Ban on High-Risk Trading.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Today, the U.S. Senate passed the biggest overhaul of rules governing finance and banking since the Great Depression, intended to rein in abuses on Wall Street and help prevent a future financial crisis. Senator Merkley released the following statement:

“Today the Senate sent a clear message that the financial security of families and businesses on Main Street must always come before the short-term profits of Wall Street..."

State Prison Whistleblower Says Oregon Corrections is Blocking Federal Mail

The first video in our ongoing series on racial corruption, Civil Rights violations and highly integrated government retaliation in Oregon.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Corruption under the color of law is a tough beast. It comes in layers because that is the way it has to be; lies always only lead to more lies, and that is the path some strike out on in order to conspire against their fellow man and the notion of justice itself.

Pain Relief Network Challenges Washington State`s Opioid Guidelines

What's contained in Washington State's Opioid Guidelines that has the multi-billion dollar Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, and one of their well funded pain societies fighting to keep opioids flowing in that state?

(MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.) - We'll begin with the Pain Relief Network's (PRN) "fight for chronic pain" treatment referring to what they are fighting for is the "dangerous crackdown on people with chronic pain."

They are turning to the protection of the courts in an effort to have the "deadly disease of chronic pain" declared a disability under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Amber Alert Issued for 13-Year Old California Girl

Anyone with information is asked to call the Orange County Sheriff's Department at 714-647-7000 or dial 911.

(RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA) - The State of California issued an Amber Alert Monday afternoon in regard to an underage girl who apparently left her home in Rancho Santa Margarita on Wednesday 7 July 2010 with the suspect.

Deputies in Orange County say the girl and the suspect had explicit exchanges on social networking sites and the suspect has been known to associate with sex crimes registrants.

Will America Free Omar Khadr From Gitmo?

Realistically, Obama needs to score a few points with his American constituency to whom he made a lot of implied promises which they are waiting to see materialize.

(DUBAI) - Come August, a military commission in Guantánamo will try Omar Khadr, a Canadian national captured outside Kabul in 2002.

He was a boy, aged 15 then. Now a burly, bearded 23-year-old who has spent one-third of his life at Guantanamo.

Police Tasers and Excessive Force in America

Taser makes 'less than lethal' products that resemble real guns.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In August 2008, just before heading to Iraq for the first time to cover the war there, I wrote an article about police tasers in America; taking a speculative look at a practice but also citing many hard facts.

Riots Break Out in Oakland Over Police Involuntary Manslaughter Verdict

"We don't have to tear nothing up, the police goin' to jail, porky, is going to jail" - Demonstrator in Oakland

(OAKLAND / SALEM) - Thousands are in the streets of Oakland over the Manslaughter verdict entered against a BART Officer who shot a 22-year old man to death, later saying he confused his police revolver with a Taser.

The officer weeped as he testified that the shooting of Oscar Grant was a tragic accident caused by accidentally grabbing his firearm instead of an electric Taser weapon.

Inmate Dies in Agony While Pleading for Help

A torturous agonizing death for a U.S. federal inmate with several serious undiagnosed deadly medical problems.

(PEKIN, Ill.) - For days before he died in a federal prison, Adam Montoya pleaded with guards to be taken to a doctor, pressing a panic button in his cell over and over to summon help that never came.

An autopsy concluded that the 36-year-old inmate suffered from cancer, hepatitis and HIV. The cancer ultimately killed him, causing his spleen to burst. Montoya bled to death internally.