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    EDITORIAL: A free lunch for the world

    The Department of Agriculture is out to sign up the world for food stamps, and you don't even have to live in the United States. The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.

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    Treasury Dept. labels Sinaloa drug cartel members as narcotic kingpins

    Eight high-ranking members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who direct drug smuggling along a 375-mile area of the U.S.-Arizona border, were named Tuesday by the Treasury Department as narcotics kingpins — which targets them for multimillion-dollar fines and severe prison sentences.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'Gang of Eight' truly ganglike

    The Mexican government must be ecstatic with the Gang of Eight's amnesty proposals ("Steve King: 'Gang of Eight bill is aggressive and outrageous amnesty,'" Web, April 18). Mexico can now permanently shift the cost of social welfare, medical and educational benefits, as well as incarceration costs, from the Mexican taxpayer to the American taxpayer.

  • Mexico demands Sotheby's halt auction of artifacts

    The Mexican government is demanding that Sotheby's auction house halt the planned sale of 51 pre-Columbian Mexican artifacts, arguing they are protected national historical pieces.

  • Former Marine Jon Hammar, who served combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, was arrested for illegally possessing an antique firearm even though he declared the gun to Mexican Customs agents. He is shown in an official 2003 USMC portrait. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Photo courtesy Olivia Hammar. (Associatd Press)

    Mexico to free veteran nabbed on questionable gun charge

    A former U.S. Marine who saw combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan was scheduled Friday for release from a prison in Mexico where he has been held without action since August on a questionable gun charge, according to an aide with the Mexican embassy.

  • People attending an Amendment 64 watch party in a bar in Denver on Nov. 6, 2012, celebrate after a local television station announced the marijuana amendment's passage. The amendment would make it legal in Colorado for individuals to possess and for businesses to sell marijuana for recreational use. (Associated Press)

    Mexican pot plans go up in a puff of smoke

    A top aide to Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto says votes to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state will force the Mexican government to rethink its efforts at trying to halt marijuana smuggling across the southwestern border.

  • US to return 4,000 archaeological items to Mexico

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will return to the Mexican government more than 4,000 archaeological pieces seized at several locations across the United States by customs agents and investigators.

  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers gather along the international border with Mexico near Naco, Ariz. Violence has spread across the Southwest border, with Mexican gangs establishing footholds and alliances in the United States. (Associated Press)

    'Sequestration' would weaken borders, lawmaker warns

    More than 8,500 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement personnel face termination in January under the Obama administration's automatic spending cuts that take effect next year in a bid to attack the spiraling fiscal deficit.

  • American Scene: Police say search continues for missing girl, 10

    Colorado police looking for a 10-year-old girl who disappeared on her walk to school have found a body in a park, but are not saying whether it is linked to the case and noted Thursday that officers are still searching for her.

  • Mexico finds 50 skulls in sacred Aztec temple

    Mexican archaeologists said Friday they uncovered the largest number of skulls ever found in one offering at the most sacred temple of the Aztec empire dating back more than 500 years.

  • ** FILE ** An illegal immigrant is fingerprinted as part of processing in order to create or update a file on that immigrant at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    U.S. begins flying home deported Mexicans

    The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed with people ordered to leave the United States.

  • American Scene: Mexico considers using NAFTA to fight state immigration law

    The Mexican government is reviewing a labor union's complaint that Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigrants violates an international trade agreement.

  • Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector headquarters on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Border Patrol halts Mexico flights

    The U.S. government has halted flights home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally in the deadly summer heat of Arizona's deserts, a money-saving move that ends a seven-year experiment that cost taxpayers nearly $100 million.

  • Mexico's monarch butterfly reserve stops logging

    Illegal logging has practically been eliminated in the western Mexico wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, according to a research report released Wednesday, and Mexican officials now hope to use the successful program of anti-logging patrols and payments to rural residents to solve other forestry conflicts throughout the country.

  • World Briefs: Police hunt woman's executioner

    A manhunt was under way Monday for Taliban militants who publicly executed a woman accused of adultery, Afghan authorities said, as outrage mounted after a video of the cold-blooded killing surfaced.

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