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...Mexican officials say the U.S. didn't ask for help in heading off migrants. But both the U.S. and Mexico are concerned about a flood of migration from Central America. Earthquakes have left part of El Salvador in ruins; Honduras is suffering soil-cracking drought; coffee prices everywhere have dropped like a rock. In fact, people from countries even farther south are finding their way north; on July 9 the Mexican navy shipped 210 Ecuadorians back home, and is getting ready for another Pacific deportation cruise...
...immigration officials wait for the next busload of deportees. "I don't believe this will solve the problem," says one of them, with some reason. Already, he says, Central Americans are dodging the crackdown, using remote routes to cross the border into Mexico. Two thousand miles to the north, Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are doing precisely the same thing...
Until now, the most effective limits on the water trade have been economic. Compared with the costs of shipping freshwater by sea, "it's still cheaper to get freshwater by other means, even by desalinization of seawater," admits Turner of WaterBank.com But Turner, who is assembling a consortium of Mexican municipalities to import water from the U.S., adds that aging infrastructure and mounting worries over contaminated groundwater are helping make larger ventures worthwhile. Schwab's Coy estimates that the world market for private distribution of water, and the bill for wastewater treatment, now amounts to $300 billion annually. The market...
...agencies. But when Marasco proposed his International Gateway of the Americas--$225 million worth of shops, restaurants, offices and hotel rooms spread over 67 acres--he also had to deal with U.S. Customs, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the federal, state and city governments on the Mexican side. Marasco observes that "it requires a great deal of, um, flexibility...
From the start, Marasco--an Italian American who speaks little Spanish--didn't know whether to giggle or weep at the frequent miscommunications. Whenever his team mentioned a border crossing that they knew as Virginia Avenue, Mexican officials suddenly began discussing a route they called El Chaparral. It took nearly a year before Marasco realized they were talking about the same port of entry...