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Study: Border fences blocking black bear migration between Arizona, Mexico

There is a new political animal in America’s age-old immigration debate: the black bear.

Tea party fears U.N. intervention in 2012 election

The tea party has added another item to its list of reasons to fear the United Nations: Some in the movement say the U.N. is planning to intervene in the United States’ upcoming elections.

Udall and Bingaman keep pushing to increase range Mexicans can travel in U.S.

By | 11.01.11 | 8:55 am | More from The New Mexico Independent

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way.

Meaning: extend the traveling distance into which Mexican More…

Proposal aims to increase range Mexicans can travel inside New Mexico

By | 10.31.11 | 3:33 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way.

VIDEO: Romney ad links Perry on immigration to Democrats, Mexico

By | 09.30.11 | 10:49 am | More from The Iowa Independent

The latest web video offering from the 2012 campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seeks not only to link Texas’ in-state tuition program for immigrations to Democrats, but to show that it was touted by Mexican officials.

Solis signs foreign workers’ rights agreements, conservative media decries ‘protection of illegal workers’

By | 09.02.11 | 4:28 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinOn Monday, U.S. Department of Labor Sec. Hilda Solis, together with the ambassadors of Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, signed agreements guaranteeing the labor rights of workers from those countries residing within the United States. The ambassadors of Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua, countries which already have More…

NYT: With DEA’s help, Mexican forces allowed to stage operations within U.S.

By | 08.26.11 | 12:50 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

The New York Times reports that the Obama Administration is allowing Mexican forces to stage operations against suspected drug traffickers from the American side of the border:

Unprecedented number of state immigration bills introduced in 2011

By | 08.10.11 | 1:45 pm

State legislators introduced 1,592 immigration-related bills and resolutions in the first half of 2011, according to a new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures, an increase of 16 percent over the number of immigration bills introduced in the first half of 2010. State legislatures have enacted 151 new More…

Immigration from Mexico at lowest level in years

By | 08.09.11 | 4:30 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed to a trickle, according to the Mexican government. Migration from Mexico peaked in 2006 or 2007, when roughly one percent of the population left the country each year. Today, the number is around one third of one percent per year, says Mexico. More…

Rick Perry issues statement opposing new border state gun reporting rules

By | 07.14.11 | 2:20 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

Texas Gov. Rick Perry blasted out a statement opposing the new reporting rules for multiple semiautomatic gun purchases in states bordering Mexico. “Singling out border states and targeting legal gun sales and sellers will have little or no impact on the Mexican cartels transporting drugs, guns and cash to and More…