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Women`s / Human Rights News: Battered Women`s Shelters Raided

The presence of armed men in places where women and children fleeing violence are supposed to be safe and secure was linked to an overall situation of lawlessness and impunity.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In Mexico, not even shelters for victims of domestic violence are safe from trouble.

Recently, refuges for battered women and children have been the object of police raids in Monterrey, Cancun and Ciudad Juarez.

Groups to Protest ICE Program that Divides Families and Threatens Community Security

March and Rally calls for end to ICE program that divides families, it happens today at 4:30 p.m.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - CAUSA Oregon will conduct a joint demonstration with Rural Organizing Project (ROP) and SEIU Local 503 OPEU outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office in Portland. During a march and rally, members of the groups will call for an end to a program that threatens community safety and security.

Started in October 2008, "Secure Communities" is a national immigration program that targets non-citizens who are arrested by the police.

Border Police, Community Meet on Immigration

“This isn’t the situation we were expecting from the (Obama) administration.” - Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network,

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In an unusual encounter, police chiefs from the Paso del Norte region of the US-Mexico borderland met with community members this past weekend to discuss immigration, racial profiling, identity cards, Arizona’s SB 1070 law, use of lethal force, and overall police-community relationships.

19 Patients Slaughtered in Mexican Rehab Facility

Nineteen people murdered by gunfire; it is a record of sorts, but not the kind a nation wants to hold.

(CHIHUAHUA / SALEM) - It took a large group of armed gunmen about ten minutes to shoot 19 hospital patients to death Sunday in Chihuahua.

Mexico's Coordinated Operation Chihuahua released a press release over the weekend, stating that representatives of three levels of government met in special session to mark the tragic events that occurred the night of 10 June, when 19 people in a rehabilitation center were murdered.

Striving Toward Survival

Untapped Strategies Urged to Ease Gulf's Oil Turmoil.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This humongous oil spill spurting forth in the Gulf may well prove to be the No. 1 unnatural disaster of this 21st Century.

Hope for Racism in America, Texas and Arizona

I find this exchange notable and remarkable because it shows what appears to be something close to hatred, become a form of realization.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I am against racism. I see it as a serious, continuing problem in this country and I am not wrong on that. I know about it personally, because I grew up in a rough section of LA and white kids were by far the minority.

This story is about a comment exchange on a particular story, that led a visitor from seemingly

Arizona`s Illegal Immigration Problem

The history of illegal immigration and illegal war in the South-Western states is an interesting and informative one.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Arizona Senate Bill 1070 has gained the State a great deal of attention recently. Typically, no one would care about the pronouncements of the so called government of that backwater hell hole, but the sheer Nazism of the law was enough to perk even international interest.

The normally subdued Economist led with the headline “Hysterical Nativism.”

Clean Water Whenever

Dispersants Create Unabated Toxic Soup Everywhere, America’s Streams, Lakes and Coasts Under Stress.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - America and the rest of the literate world is getting up to speed regarding the potential long-term negative impacts of oil dispersion compounds. If ignorance is bliss, we’re no longer happy-idiot, blind petroleum idolaters.

In fact, ALL of our fragile watery ecosystems are going going gone, and the basic health of the people who are trying to clean up the Gulf mess is becoming a point of contention and distress.

Education News: The Mexican Revolution in El Paso

Asked about parallels between the migrations of 100 years ago and today’s exodus from neighboring Ciudad Juarez, El Paso Prof. Keith Erekson, says specific causes of the dislocations might be different, the terror and trauma suffered by people are similar.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The role of the Texas border city of El Paso remains one of the little-known stories of the revolutionary upheaval that erupted in Mexico in 1910.

The US city on the Rio Grande was a vital center for many of the plots, intrigues, advances and retreats of different political factions vying for power in Mexico.

Border Patrol Shooting Kills 15-Year-Old Mexican Boy at Ciudad Juarez / El Paso, TX border crossing

As in Palestine, even when residents are poor as dirt... They can still pick up rocks.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - The Mexican border is seeing a problem involving rock throwers aiming at U.S. Border Patrol Agents. In recent days, a 15-year-old Mexican boy was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent who retaliated to the apparent rock throwing with live fire, killing the youth and launching an international incident.