Man could face 30 felonies in gun case
BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, SUN STAFF WRITER
Dec 9, 2005

Yuma Police are requesting that a man who lives in Mexico be charged with 30 felonies in connection with alleged gun purchases made in Yuma — worth approximately $20,000 — for people in Mexico.

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Yuma Border Patrol arrests first MS-13 gang member
|BY JONATHAN ATHENS, SUN STAFF WRITER
Dec 9, 2005

A 32-year-old El Salvadoran man with a long criminal history is the first member of a violent Central American gang to be arrested this year in the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma sector, federal authorities said

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GOP Faction Wants to Change 'Birthright Citizenship' Policy

By Warren Vieth, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — For nearly 140 years, any child born on U.S. soil, even to an illegal immigrant, has been given American citizenship. Now, some conservatives in Congress are determined to change that.

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Mexican wants legal status for "all its citizens" in the U.S. Chicago, Dec 8 (EFE).-

Mexico's top diplomat said here Thursday that his nation wants to see Washington undertake an immigration reform extending legal status to "all the Mexicans in the U.S." The time has come to debate that reform, "without passion, but with reason, because it mutually suits us," Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said in Chicago, home to a burgeoning Mexican community.

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CBP officers fire on driver at Mariposa

By Julia Bishop

Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers fired at an adult male Tuesday when he attempted to run them over with a pick-up truck at the Mariposa Port of Entry.

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Officials on both sides of border seek trade

Louie Gilot
El Paso Times
Saturday, December 10, 2005

Border states legislators from the United States and Mexico will lobby their federal counterparts to take on a $100 million project to boost trade on the border.

The project centers on the designation of "secure manufacturing zones," which would virtually push the border back to the Juárez maquiladora, where a series of security measures would be applied.

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A one-stop hospital

Officials hope new Tijuana complex will draw patients from north of border

By Sandra Dibble
and Sarah Skidmore
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS

December 10, 2005

TIJUANA – Mexico's largest private hospital chain has moved to the California border, causing a stir in the medical community as it opens the largest and most comprehensive private care facility that this city of more than 1.5 million residents has known.

The hospitals' operators are counting on drawing a significant portion of their patients – as much as 25 percent – from Southern California. They are offering care at lower cost, they say, but at standards similar to those north of the border. Hospital administrators say their services will cost about 40 percent less than comparative care at a San Diego hospital.

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Mexican authorities seize explosives, fake army uniforms in border city

ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:46 a.m. December 9, 2005

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities seized an arsenal of guns and small explosives in a house in the violence-plagued border city of Nuevo Laredo across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, officials said Friday.

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House panel rejects citizenship path for illegals

By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 9, 2005

The House Judiciary Committee yesterday voted down an amendment that would have created a path to citizenship for most illegal aliens before passing a bill to require employers to check employees' documents to ensure workers are legal.

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Arizona's immigration proposals to get more aggressive

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX - The passionate debate over Arizona's immigration woes will get more aggressive in the coming year as state lawmakers facing re-election campaigns feel pressure to fix problems long thought of as the sole province of the federal government.

Beginning in January, the Legislature will consider proposals to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, fund a new 50- to 100-person squad of the state police to crack down on border problems and prohibit immigrants from receiving state-funded job training, key lawmakers said.

That's just the start of the proposals legislators will consider.