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Virtual Failure on the Border

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 30 (Editorial) - It is past time to pull the plug on the “virtual fence” that the federal government has been trying to erect on the border with Mexico.

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An image of border harmony

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Hector Tobar - Sep. 03 (Editorial) - Today, more than eve, the cities in our Latin American past and the cities of our U.S. present are separated by powerful barriers. But it wasn't always that way. Once, a young Mexican postman of limited means could take his girlfriend on a trolley across the border for a strawberry soda. Or he could walk to the El Paso train station with his wife and begin an American family, entering a country where no one yet thought of building walls to keep people out.

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A Good Day for Judicial Discretion

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jun. 15 (Editorial) - Two heartening Supreme Court decisions suggest that, even on a conservative court, the letter of the law has its limits. Equity is an elusive legal concept that occasionally allows some leeway in applying the rules of the law and is often unappreciated by judges who insist the law means only what it says. That was clear in 2008 when the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit refused to allow federal courts to consider a death-penalty conviction of Albert Holland because his lawyer had inexcusably let the filing deadline pass. Fortunately, seven members of the Supreme Court proved less rigid in their thinking on Monday and reversed that blinkered decision.

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A chink in the US-Mexico border fence

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By James Ridgeway - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - Close to the nation's busiest highway border crossing, from San Diego County to Tijuana, a border fence cuts across a park and a beach before stretching into the surf of the Pacific Ocean. This is the westernmost edge of the demarcation line in the US's war against unauthorised immigration, and we are heading into a militarised zone.

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U.S. antes up to fight drugs in Mexico, as it cuts funding for programs here

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Marcela Sanchez - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - No one has yet called Mexico a narco-state, but drug-related violence and corruption have become so widespread that President Felipe Calderon has declared war on drug syndicates operating in Mexican territory. The United States has encouraged these reappraisals sometimes with sticks, now most often with carrots, lots of carrots. Since 2000, it has funneled more than $5 billion into Plan Colombia; now it plans to invest up to $1.4 billion in Mexico for what is being called the Merida Initiative, named for the city where it was proposed.

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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Recount

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:33:14 -0700

The Guardian - By Greg Palast - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - In the six years since I first began investigating the burglary ring we call "elections" in America, a new Voting Reform industry has grown up. That’s good. What’s worrisome is that most of the effort is focused on preventing the installation of computer voting machines. Paper ballots, we’re told, will save our democracy. Well, forget it. Over the weekend, Mexico’s ruling party showed how you can rustle an election even with the entire population using the world’s easiest paper ballot.

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