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...Perot to drum up opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would create a Canada- U.S.-Mexico common market. NAFTA does not deal with immigration, and Perot has not mentioned the subject. But some analysts think he is tapping, deliberately or not, into a vein of anti-Mexican sentiment fed largely by illegal immigration...
...fearing a nationwide backlash is that illegal entries keep going up, despite government attempts to reduce them. The Immigration Control Act of 1986, which imposed criminal penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, stanched the flow just briefly. Arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the U.S.-Mexican frontier dropped from 1.7 million in the year before the act took effect, to 890,000 three years later. But the number has climbed back to 1.2 million a year. As a rule of thumb two or three illegals get away for every one who is caught, so aliens from Mexico...
...Mexican-American student group Raza and the Asian American Association (AAA) began agitating in September to force the University to begin the process of change in Harvard's treatment of ethnicity in the curriculum...
...geologist reports that two major earthquake-prone faults in southern California have achieved synergy. An 1857 rupture of the San Andreas fault, he says, has been triggering aftershocks on the nearby San Jacinto fault ever since. If he's right, the next great earthquake near the Mexican border will happen 20 years from...
WHEN HUMAN-RIGHTS CHAMPION JORGE CARPIZO MacGregor took over as Mexico's Attorney General early this year, he vowed to crack down on drug traffickers and the corrupt government officials who collaborate with them. Few citizens expected much action. But Mexican police have already killed two drug lords, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and Emilio Quintero Payan, the alleged leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Carpizo's agents have captured more than 15 tons of cocaine, one-third more than in all of 1992. In one bust, police found 7.2 tons of cocaine hidden in 8,000 cans of jalapeno peppers...