Word: mexicans
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...Ezell, the stakes in his job are portentous. Although more than a million aliens are arrested along the U.S. -Mexican border each year, INS assumes that at least that many cross undetected. If the border "invasion" is not stemmed, Ezell predicts, "we'll be overwhelmed. We can't take all the undeveloped countries. We'll become one ourselves." Obviously angry about the problem, Ezell wants everyone to share his emotion. "The public gets mad at drunk drivers. They need to get mad at illegal immigrants...
...Mexican relations. The fact that we are neighbors creates a very complex relationship. There is a great potential for cooperation but also for conflicts. The matter of migration attests to this fact. The drug-trafficking issue has caused some problems. The U.S. is the No. 1 drug-consumer market in the world, and is thus a powerful magnet, which in turn serves to foster this kind of activity in Mexico. The Mexican government is making a considerable effort in drug control in spite of our economic crisis...
...ever had a very easy time. If we look back over history, we will see that it was only from the 1950s until the end of the 1970s that we enjoyed continuous expansion. The rest of our history has been difficult and has always required enormous efforts by the Mexican people. We have been able to surpass these problems and change Mexico into an important country on a world scale. If we have been able to achieve this when we faced even more serious problems than the ones we face now, I am certain that we will be able...
Cuba is one of those low-slung New Mexican adobe towns, a wide spot in the road, really, up on the Colorado Plateau, insight of the Jemez and the Nacimiento ranges of the Rockies. This time of year the country is golden with rabbit weed and chamiza (when the Spaniards first crossed these parts, they called it tierra amarilla, or yellow land), and the deep blue sky above it has no ceiling. In the first issue of the Cuba News--"the first edition of the first newspaper ever printed in this area"--an editorial declared that "we believe by letting...
...Killer Bee Barrier. $1 million was approved to prevent so-called African killer bees from continuing their migration north from Central America. The swarm is expected to reach the U.S.-Mexican border by 1991 and launch its assault on the domestic bee population. The money will be used to set up biological barriers to trap and kill them...