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Economy News: Where are the Jobs?

According to the Texas Department of Workforce Solutions, the 34,677 jobless El Pasoans were the most the border city had seen in 11 years.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - The shipping of goods across the US-Mexico border is back on a brisk track.

But employment opportunities on both sides of the international line are still not keeping pace with the so-called economic recovery.

Special Report The Great Immigration Stalemate

SB 1070's momentum could be dissipating, but immigration controversies are still stewing.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Five years ago, possibly millions of people marched across the US demanding justice for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented residents.

Hitting a high point with work stoppages on May Day 2006, the pro-immigrant protest was the largest social movement in the US since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War years.

Buy Cable TV, Get a Free Gun

Meanwhile GOP presidential contenders support a moral crusade to save America.

(APTOS, Calif.) - Guns in churches, schools and bars. Immigrants expelled to solve financial problems. Morality praised as the key national issue.

American politics are getting more bizarre and in some cases, borders on the nutty. Current politics include Republican legislatures in Texas, Arizona, Georgia and Minnesota fighting for their "rights" to reject energy efficiency light bulbs, while South Carolina will manufacture their own state's rights incandescent bulbs.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents in Texas Seize More than 1 ton of Marijuana

(Mcallen, Texas) - More than $1.6 million worth of marijuana was confiscated by U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the McAllen Station in multiple seizures Thursday.

The largest of the seizures occurred that night when agents working in Abram, Texas, found nearly 700 pounds of marijuana, with a value of more than $540,000, scattered throughout the brush.

The Enduring Jaguar

"The jaguar performs a fundamental role in the our ecosystems" - Jalisco Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - An enduring symbol of indigenous cultures in the Americas, the jaguar continues to hang on despite illegal hunting, habitat pressures and delays in implementing conservation plans.

Evidence Emerges that BP Gulf Disaster Not Over

New reports of fissures and oil leaks are routinely being suppressed.

(CHICAGO) - Deep under the Gulf of Mexico, beyond the light, beyond the waves, beyond most humans' sight, dark death lingers.

When the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster occurred the world's attention became riveted on the spectacle of horror and disaster that terrorized Gulf residents, sent the media into a frenzy, and galvanized environmentalists around the globe.

Hailey Dunn 13 Denied Amber Alert

Are public officials doing enough to help locate missing kids?

(CLEVELAND) - Forward by Mitch Carr: If an Amber Alert had been issued for 13-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn, you'd see it on blinking TxDOT billboards, hear it on the radio, and be able to see and hear more on TV.

No alert has been issued, however, because not enough information is available.

A Nation of Farm Workers

“I’m not sure we’ll ever return to the type of full employment we’ve had in the past” - Charles McMillon, Washington, DC-based MBG Information Services

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In New Mexico and the United States, farm work keeps undergoing historic transformations.

Globalization, mechanization, technological innovation, and job outsourcing have eliminated or changed thousands of jobs in cotton, pecan, chile, pecan, onion and other crops.

Two Sisters, Two Planets

A hardy shout away from Ciudad Juarez, El Paso experienced a dramatically different reality in 2010

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Hugging a common land and embracing a sisterly river, El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are linked in a zillion ways. But in 2010, the twin cities might as well have been on different planets.

Depending on the press or law enforcement source, anywhere between 3075 and 3156 people were murdered in the Mexican city and the adjacent Juarez Valley. Of the victims, 304 or 306 were women, again depending on the source.

Time to Reconsider Rio Grande Management?

The 2002 crisis may have come and gone, but the issues shaping the future of the Rio Grande...

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - If there is anything the US and Mexico have in common, it is the meandering boundary between two neighbors; the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo river.

From its Colorado headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande is habitat for a plethora of animal and plant species, including migratory birds arriving from far to the north for winter refuge.