Fast And Furious: Executive Privilege Is Illegitimate to Shield Wrongdoing
As a strong defender of executive power (when properly exercised) and executive privilege (when properly invoked), I am concerned when claims of executive power or… Read More
Boost for the U.S. and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The G-20 meetings in Mexico over the weekend might actually have accomplished something. Mexico was today invited to join the nine countries, including the U.S.,… Read More
Immigration: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
The Obama Administration has claimed that the southern border is secure because apprehension rates for illegal border crossings are down. The Pew Hispanic Center, using… Read More
Scribecast: Katie Pavlich on the Scandal of Operation Fast and Furious
Katie Pavlich’s new book, “Fast and Furious,” assembles the devastating evidence that implicates the Obama administration for its ill-advised gun-walking operation and ensuing scandal to… Read More
North America’s Leaderless Summit
At the April 2 meeting of North American leaders—President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, and President Obama—the U.S. President was… Read More
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Vice President Biden: Right and Wrong on Mexico and Central America
This week, the White House dispatched its peripatetic Vice President Joe Biden south to Mexico and Honduras. Biden rightly sees criminal violence and insecurity as… Read More
The Birth of a Mexican Education Reform Movement?
As we continue demanding increased accountability to improve the struggling U.S. educational system, a new documentary being released in movie theaters across Mexico about its… Read More
Race Is On: Candidate Lineup Now Set in Mexico’s Upcoming Presidential Election
In a historic first, Josefina Vazquez Mota was chosen on Sunday to be the presidential candidate for Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN). Vazquez Mota’s primary… Read More
The Unknown Summit: Key Players in Latin America Move Toward Economic Unity
Last week, in Merída, Mexico, the leaders of Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Colombia met to affirm their shared commitment to economic integration, growth, and competitiveness…. Read More
Spillover Border Violence: Fact or Fiction?
Last night, NBC Nightly News continued its series “Mexico: The War Next Door.” In its latest segment, NBC highlighted the much discussed and debated issue… Read More
The Right Way to Reform Immigration
In an op-ed for FOX News Heritage’s Jim Carafano lays out policy ideas that can lead to true immigration reform. The main argument was that… Read More
A View from the Border
How goes the battle for the border? Heritage Foundation Latin American specialist Ray Walser and I spent some time on the border at Laredo, Texas, with… Read More
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Illegal Immigration: Greater Efforts Still Needed to Combat Smuggling and Violence
The illegal immigration of Mexicans to the U.S. has “sputtered to a trickle” due to an increase in economic and educational opportunities in Mexico coupled… Read More
Iran, Mexican Zetas, and the Southern Terror Express
A persistent threat scenario against the U.S. has been foreign terrorist organizations—acting independently or in cooperation with violent transnational criminal organizations, and perhaps backed by… Read More
Report: Justice Department Let IEDs ‘Walk’ Into Mexico
Officials from the U.S. federal government have admitted to arresting, then releasing mere hours later, a man who admitted to manufacturing hundreds of improvised explosive… Read More
Operation Fast and Furious: An Obama Foreign Policy Disconnect
During the past week, the U.S. and Colombia indicted and arrested more than 50 individuals charged with organizing maritime and aerial smuggling of cocaine from… Read More
Mexico’s Casino Horror, Fast & Furious Scandal, and No Accountability
The latest horror of August 25 has shaken Mexico. In a brazen and senseless assault, reportedly part of an extortion plot, members of the deadly… Read More
Operation Fast and Furious Guns Found at 11 U.S. Crime Scenes
News broke yesterday that three officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who were instrumental in the agency’s botched Fast and Furious… Read More
Crime-Ridden Mexican Border Fosters Human Trafficking
Drugged, raped, and sold for sex. This was the life of Maria (not her real name), a 16-year-old Mexican girl who was kidnapped by a… Read More
Honoring Fallen Border Security Agent Brian Terry
Customs Border Protection Agent Brian Terry was just doing his job when he was killed in an Arizona shootout in December 2010 by assault… Read More
Operation Fast and Furious Has Harmed U.S.-Mexican Relations
On the night of December 15, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry joined with other agents in an effort to catch several bandits targeting… Read More
Washington Post Underscores Heritage on Illegal Immigration Findings
In 2009 alone, 419 bodies were discovered along the Mexican border. In the even shorter time between April and September 2010, some 11,333 illegal immigrants… Read More
Human Tragedy Goes On: 80 Illegal Immigrants Kidnapped in Mexico
Late last week, at least 80 illegal immigrants were abducted from a train by armed gunmen in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. According to… Read More
Losing the Mexico Drug War: One Protest at a Time
Galvanized by the brutal slaying of his 24-year old son on March 28, Mexican poet and intellectual Javier Sicilia has become the loudest voice of… Read More
Mexico’s Immigration Laws: The Untold Story
There is no shortage of criticism of our immigration laws from detractors who contend that they are unjust and immoral. And though criticism of U.S…. Read More
Ousting the U.S. Ambassador Does Not Help U.S.–Mexican Crime Fight
The resignation of U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual, under pressure from President Felipe Calderon, is bad news for the Obama Administration. There is little… Read More
Obama and Calderon Move Goal Posts for Summit Win
The March 3 working meeting between Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon and U.S. President Barack Obama loomed as a showdown over Mexico’s sputtering war against crime… Read More
EconomyNews
Canseco on Calderon, Obama, and the Border
Today, President Barack Obama will welcome Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the White House. As Senior Latin American Policy Analyst, Ray Walser, aptly described in… Read More
ICE Agent Zapata’s Murder Deepens U.S. Involvement in Mexico’s Drug War
On February 15, Mexican gunmen boldly attacked and killed a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata and wounded a second, Victor Avila. This… Read More
LawNews
Responding to Comments on CIFTA
Several comments have taken issue with my post on the recent Washington Post article on the supposed prevalence of gun smuggling from the U.S. to… Read More
