News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, May 04, 2007

L.A. mayor cuts short Mexico trip over police clash

Fri May 4, 2007 6:12 PM ET

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The mayor of Los Angeles cut short a trip to Mexico on Friday to address the furor over a clash this week between police and pro-immigrant protesters.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has been traveling in El Salvador and Mexico and was out of town when police used rubber bullets and batons to clear protesters from a city park, was expected to hold a news conference on his return.

"It's time to go back; they want me to be there," Villaraigosa said in Mexico City. "We all know ... this is a serious matter." He was to have been in Mexico until May 9.

Televised images show a line of police in riot gear shoving mostly Latino demonstrators from the city's MacArthur Park on Tuesday. Most of the crowd had just taken part in a day of nationwide protests to demand citizenship rights for illegal immigrants.

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