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Thousands of people took to the streets in cities across America last week to protest bills in Congress that target illegal immigrants--including legislation to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border and make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally. Regardless of whether the laws are enacted, authorities are already cracking down. Teams of officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are rounding up some of the half a million fugitives the U.S. says are skirting orders to leave the country, and soon the dragnet will expand. In January the Department of Homeland Security, which...
...huge by network standards, but all paying customers. "It showed us that audiences could connect to a guy so deeply flawed as to be a murderer," says NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly. The networks have tried and failed to emulate it before: CBS with Falcone in 2000, NBC with Mexican-mob drama Kingpin...
Paloma A. Zepeda ’06, who is half-Mexican and half-Russian, says when she showed up at meetings for the Mexican American student group RAZA, people often reacted by saying “Look, white people come to RAZA...
...Zepeda, her politics made her a minority within the Mexican community...
Gibson nonetheless is a lightning rod--pro-Mel and anti-Mel blogs abound on the Internet--and he knows that even non-Mexican detractors will ask why, if he's so morbidly fascinated with the bloody deeds of Jewish Pharisees and Maya priests, he doesn't hold a mirror to his own church and film the Spanish Inquisition. Gibson won't say that's a future plan, but he nods and agrees that "there are monsters in every culture...