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...part of a civil judgment against a vigilante leader who allegedly threatened them with a gun when he caught them sneaking into the U.S. in March 2003. The immigrants said the ordeal left them with posttraumatic stress, a condition that seems to be spreading fast on the Mexico-U.S. boundary. To wit: Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano declared a state of emergency last week because, she said, "the Federal Government has failed" to secure the border. Three days earlier, fellow Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico took the same step, which allows states to release funds for fighting illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bickering About the Border | 8/22/2005 | See Source »

...greatest argument against inflammatory xenophobes may come from economic trends that will shape the future of Mexico-U.S. relations. Experts point out that Mexico's population growth rate has plunged by more than 50 % during the last five decades, which will probably lead to rising incomes and demand for workers inside of Mexico. Already the percentage of first-generation immigrants in the total US Hispanic population is expected to drop from 40 % in 2000 to closer to a third by 2020, a decline of nearly 20 %. In other words, the forces that have driven emigration from Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Influencing America | 8/13/2005 | See Source »

...democratic stirrings" in the Middle East that Krauthammer noted with such satisfaction would, if they resulted in free and fair elections, probably return an overwhelming victory for anti-U.S. Islamic parties. Krauthammer claimed, "We have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims" to our cause. Why, then, is there a vocal movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/6/2005 | See Source »

...prove that the Bible need not be taken literally, questioned him about Jonah and the whale, Joshua and the Sun, whence Mrs. Cain, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel. Mr. Darrow bellowed his purpose to "show up Fundamentalism, to prevent bigots and ignoramuses from controlling education in the U. S." Mr. Bryan shook his fist, roared back his purpose "to protect the Word of God from the greatest atheist and agnostic in the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...could otherwise have been won, that the terrorists' depiction of us is true. Adam Marczyk Highland Mills, New York, U.S. The "democratic stirrings" in the Middle East that Krauthammer noted with such satisfaction would, if they resulted in free and fair elections, probably return an overwhelming victory for anti-U.S. Islamic parties. Krauthammer claimed, "We have recruited tens of millions of Afghan and Iraqi Muslims" to our cause. Why, then, is there a vocal movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror | 8/2/2005 | See Source »

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