sfgate.com - 1/25/2009
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Calderon's administration has handed over more than 150 criminal suspects since coming to power in December 2006. The extradition rate is double what it was before Calderon took office. And it represents a radical policy change from a decade ago, when Mexico, sensitive about its sovereignty, ...
washingtontimes.com - 1/26/2009
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By: canadianfookair "Canadian border!?" "Don't talk about the
Canadian border!" "Canadian border!?" "Are you kidding me!?" I...
think coach Mora just about sums up my feelings on this issue. January 26, 2009 at 2:54 p.m. | Mark as Offensive By: ...
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Napolitano's priority: Canada border
abcnews.go.com - 1/23/2009
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President Obama signed an executive order today reversing
the ban that prohibits funding to international family planning...
groups that provide abortions, as first reported by ABC News . Under the hotly debated "Mexico City Policy," the U.S. ...
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Obama Overturns 'Mexico City Policy' Implemented by Reagan
shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 1/28/2009
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By Christian Brose For too long, Mexico's intensifying
war against narcogangs has gone largely unnoticed in U.S....
debate. At last, that's changing. For starters, there was the Joint Forces Command report late last year warning that Mexico, like ...
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Is Mexico heading south?
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... dangerous people with associates who would be prepared to do a lot to spring them. Consider drug kingpins, for instance: they generally have lots of money and large organizations, and while I'm not sure they would fly planes into prisons (??), they could probably think of less lurid ways to spring people. And yet the United States, under George W. Bush, actually sought to have these dangerous people extradited to the United States, exposing our citizens to danger! Not only that, we succeeded ! For instance, ...
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... dangerous people with associates who would be prepared to do a lot to spring them. Consider drug kingpins, for instance: they generally have lots of money and large organizations, and while I'm not sure they would fly planes into prisons (??), they could probably think of less lurid ways to spring people. And yet the United States, under George W. Bush, actually sought to have these dangerous people extradited to the United States, exposing our citizens to danger! Not only that, we succeeded ! For instance, ...
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State of War
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