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...Winners BILL CLINTON Chilling out in Rio, former U.S. Prez drops $113 in a local shop on a pair of bikinis and three sarongs. Don't ask. Just don't ask ASCENSION FRANCO GONZALES Undocumented immigrant finds $203,000 on L.A. street, gives all of it back. That's how the INS guessed he wasn't a real American BARNEY THE LOBSTER One-meter-long crustacean is saved from the pot by a merciful chef in London. When it comes to shellfish, size does matter Losers MICHAEL JACKSON King of Pop opens trading at NASDAQ, only to see stocks tumble...
...fact that immigration reform is on the table is a sign that Washington has accepted a truth that Mexico has long held to be self-evident: That migration across the Rio Grande is essentially an economic problem. There'd be little reason for Mexicans to risk the harrowing passage if there were decent jobs to be had at home. Thus Fox's plan for immigration reform, coupled with economic reform to grow the Mexican economy. But President Bush also has plenty of reason to be cautious, since curbing immigration has long been a hot-button issue for his party...
...over the rate in 2000. Originally, the deportees were simply taken across the border to Guatemala; now, thanks to a deal with that country, Mexico is sending them right back to the country they came from--as if Mexicans deported from the U.S. were not only sent across the Rio Grande but taken back to their home villages...
Critics point out that the Mexican maquilas have drained jobs from the U.S. side. Allen says those jobs were leaving anyway. And even though the Rio Grande Valley remains one of the nation's poorest regions, a lucrative new companion industry--logistics and technical support--has helped boost job growth 7% last year in the McAllen area, the best in Texas. The 2,000 mostly American maquila professionals who cross the bridge daily into Reynosa bring in $1 million a year in tolls alone for the city of McAllen. "If Reynosa is not doing well," says city manager Mike Perez...
...population may run out of fresh water in as little as five years because it sits on a smaller portion of the aquifer. El Paso is looking to import water from 150 miles away. Druglords have killed so many people here that victims' families--on both sides of the Rio Grande--have their own support groups. Tuberculosis and hepatitis flow freely back and forth--and beyond. "The truck driver with TB who sits in our restaurants today will be in Denver or Chicago tomorrow," says Jose Manuel de la Rosa, regional dean for Texas Tech's Health Sciences Center...