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| Border Officials Target Immigrants Coming and Going |
By Richard Marosi c) 2008, Los Angeles Times
SAN DIEGO -- U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend illegal immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they`re catching them on the way out. At random times on the Tijuana-San Diego border, U.S. Customs and Border... |
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| Mexican Consul General Welcomes Challenges |
By Anna Gorman (c) 2008, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES -- Juan Marcos Gutierrez has spent 16 years in Mexican public service, including as city attorney in Tijuana, federal legislator for Baja California and anti-corruption prosecutor in Mexico City.
But Gutierr... |
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| Applicants for Citizenship Take To the Courts to Force Action |
By Christopher Lee (c) 2008, The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Mark Sapir got fed up waiting years for immigration officials to act on his citizenship application. So the native of Russia did the most American thing he could think of: He filed a lawsuit.
Sapir, a... |
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| A 670-Mile-Long Shrine to American Insecurity |
By Gregory Rodriguez Special to the Los Angeles Times
Last February, I found myself in the difficult position of explaining American insecurity to a group of Mexican undergraduates at a college in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of the border at Brownsville, Texas. I was... |