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El Universal (Mexico City) 11/13/09 UN idea rejected A number of business organizations in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, have called for a United Nations peace force to come to their city to quell the violence of narco-traffic and other organized crime activities, but President Calderón today rejected that possibility or any other involving foreign intervention. In his statement, Calderón said, “Clearly, it is not a case that requires it. Mexico would not accept the presence or any foreign intervention in the country, for these are matters of internal security.” —- Another tunnel found in Baja California An anonymous tip to Baja...

Thursday, 11/12/09 La Hora (Quito, Ecuador) 11/11/09 Ecuador asks U.S. for immigration reform The issues of security, commerce and immigration between the United States and Ecuador were dealt with at the U.S. Department of State when a 25 person delegation, including Luis Gallegos, the Ecuadoran Ambassador to the U.S., met with Thomas Shannon, U.S. Undersecretary for Latin America. The Ecuadoran delegation, headed by Jorge Orbe, the Sub-Secretary for Bilateral Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, Commerce and Integration, also brought out the problems which concern the two million Ecuadorans estimated to be residing in the United States. Ambassador Gallegos...

El Financiero (Mexico City) 11/7/09 Mexico and US working together as never before: Napolitano In an interview with the Spanish daily El Pais, US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that the US and Mexico have, at this time, the best cooperation in working jointly against narcotraffic. ”We work very closely with President Calderon and his government and there cannot be more agreement in that there is enormous interest by the US in defeating the cartels,” she said. ”For us, it is a matter of national security in that these organizations should introduce drugs in hundreds of communities,” she...

STOCKTON - The suspicions of deputies delivering a court order in east Stockton on Wednesday afternoon led them to a haul of Border Patrol uniforms, a missing Sheriff's Office badge and a 36-year-old man with an outstanding warrant for forgery. According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies were serving a protective order at a residence at East Cherokee and North Wilcox roads when they spotted a vehicle nearby with expired registration tags. It appeared unoccupied, but the front driver's side window was down. When deputies approached, they saw a man in the driver's seat, which had been fully reclined. He appeared...

Por Esto (Merida, Yucatan) 10/28/09 “Mordida”, a favorite extortion and bribe in Mexico In Cancun, Mexico, police stopped a driver, a visiting tourist, for an alleged “administrative violation.” Then they asked the tourist for up to $300 dollars so she could proceed without having a penalty issued to her. It turned out that the victim of this extortion was Michelle Fischbach, a state senator from Minnesota, who later presented a written complaint to the local authorities regarding the episode. Five Cancun “Tourist Police” officers are now under investigation for their personal attempt at extortion. “Mordida” (a “bite”) is a common...

Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 10/22/09 Mexican senator defends migrants Mexican Senator Manuel Velasco proposed that the country’s new head of the National Human Rights Commission ally himself with international agencies to “strive for the legal recognition of our fellow citizens who work in the United States.” He said that supporting undocumented Mexicans also granted confidence and calm to millions of families in Mexico in that their relatives in the United States have allies to protect them. “We believe that the issue of human rights……must also expand its activities beyond the national borders, and in particular beyond the northern border, which...

Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana was murdered with eight .45 caliber shots the night of Friday, May 15, in a residence to the northeast of El Paso, Texas. The 37 year old man was the presumed leader of the Juarez cartel and a DEA informant. The killer was identified by police as Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18 years old, a member of the 111th Air Artillery Defense Brigade of the United States Army. Apodaca was asked to kill him. A rival organization, known as La Compania [The Company] contracted him and two other subjects to square away a debt. Four months later,...

At a time when 83% of Americans view government corruption as a very important problem, isn't it time that we stop fostering a culture of corruption by failing to control illegal immigration? Most illegal aliens come from countries where corruption is rampant. In 2008, the average corruption score of the ten countries with the largest number of their citizens residing illegally in the United States was 3.43 out of a possible ten signifying a serious to rampant level of corruption. Corruption is involved in virtually everything illegal aliens do. They either sneak into the United States or lie to consular...

Fugitive Apprehended with 3 Illegal Aliens Hidden in SUV Thursday, 03 September 2009 07:44 CBP San Ysidro, CA. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers apprehended a 44-year-old fugitive and rescued three illegal aliens hidden in the vehicle he was driving at the San Ysidro port of entry early this morning. Two of the illegal aliens, including a 15-year-old male, suffered burns and were hospitalized [snip] _________ El Financiero (Mexico City) 9/4/09 Mexican shoot-out closes Texas university The University of Texas branch in the border city of Brownsville was evacuated and closed this afternoon after a gunfight on the Mexican...

La Prensa (Managua, Nicaragua) 6/9/09 Op/col. by Carlos Ball, “Immigrants or emigrants” Prosperous countries attract immigrants. Such was the case of Argentina at the start of the 20th century; of Venezuela, in the middle of the last century, and of the United States until recently. Argentina and then Venezuela became countries of emigrants. Now, sadly, everything seems to indicate that the United States is not only in the middle of a recession, but that this great country is falling into a hard decadence, brought about by interventionist policies, excessive government expenditures and high taxes. For many years, foreign students who...

El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 6/3/09 The rain of white powder that falls from above is not snow or heavenly manna, it’s part of the cocaine that the drug cartels pass through Honduras without major problem. The passage of narcotics across the country – be it by air, land or sea – is producing terrifying sequels of violence. According to an annual report of the “Ministerio Público”, 55 kilos were seized in 2005, 2,714 in 2006, 1,704 in 2007, 6,764 in 2008 and in 2009 the tally is already at 6,655 kilos. The increase in seizures is not a result of...

Critica (Hermosillo, Sonora), Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) and others 5/27/09 Mex. federal police and military personnel carried out a simultaneous operation in the state of Michoacán on Tuesday, May 26, and arrested ten city mayors, a judge and seventeen law enforcement state government officials. An eleventh arrest, that of another city mayor, took place today (Wed.) at dawn. All the detainees are said to have links with or to have provided protection for the “La Familia” criminal group. (Michoacán, on Mexico’s west coast just north of the state of Guerrero, is among the country’s most violent and has been...

Notice to Readers: M3 Report staff will be unavailable from May 21st through May 30th. There will be no M3 Reports during this period. Additionally, during the summer months, there may also be occasional brief interruptions to our publications. El Diario en Linea (Chihuahua) 5/18/09 Three decapitated bodies were found this morning inside a rental car near the Pacific port city of Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan. The bodies were charred and a narco message was left with them, but authorities did not reveal the contents. The heads were found later in an ice chest left on a highway bridge. ——————– Saturday...

Let us begin by stating a first principle. As something becomes more available, it becomes cheaper, and vice versa. This is the law of supply and demand. It is a fundamental, irrefutable law of economics, so well-proven that it needs no discussion. What must be pointed out here, though, is that sweat is a quantity covered by the law of supply and demand. As sweat becomes more available, it becomes cheaper. One purpose of immigration laws is to regulate the amount of sweat in the country, that is, the size of the labor pool. Immigration adds workers to the labor...

Excelsior (Mexico City) 3/26/09 -full transl.- The Plenum (read: full assembly) of the Chamber of Deputies approved an Accord Point to urge the Secretary of Foreign Relations (”SRE”) to take up talks with the government of the United States of America again about an integral migratory reform and the respect of the human rights of the Mexican migrants who live and work in that nation. During the session, the Plenum voted in favor of said proposal which exhorts the SRE to ask the government of the United States of America, via the proper diplomatic channels, to determine the feasibility of...

Border Patrol agents are arresting an increased number of dangerous criminals at the border, officials say. "We're talking about major things. Homicides, sex offenders, big robberies, armed robberies--things to that degree," says agent Mike Scioli. Scioli says more dangerous criminals are trying to enter the U.S. -- a disturbing yet growing trend along the southern border. This past weekend, a group of 34 illegals were apprehended by agents near Ajo. Two of them were members of a notorious and ruthless gang known as MS-13. How did agents find out? Finger prints and tattoos were a dead-giveaway. "These two individuals, not...

El Debate (Sinaloa) 2/24/09 Three of four youths abducted Monday night were found murdered in farmland near Costa Rica, Sinaloa, some 20 miles south of Culiacan. The victims were ages 17, 19 and 20. The fourth youth abducted with them has not been located. All the bodies had signs of torture and had been shot repeatedly in their backs and heads. Their hands were tied behind them with cord. [Photo relates.] murder —– “A small fortune” in US currency was seized by Mexican federal authorities in Culiacan. The Army confiscated more than $380,000 as well as two vehicles from a...

El Universal (Mexico City) and Entorno a Tamaullipas (Tamaulipas) 2/17/09 The Mexican Army and Federal Police are maintaining a “state of siege” in commercial areas of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, after a moving gun battle began this morning. So far there are a reported 10 deaths, five from the federal troops and five from the criminal gangs. There are also a reported 20 wounded and several arrests. The battle began mid-morning near a school and left two people dead in a vehicle and at least two Federal Police gravely wounded. The battle continued along nearby streets and through at least four commercial...