The program was agreed upon by Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department, the Attorney General’s Office and the Interior Department in conjunction with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It comes amid rising tension between the two countries regarding border security.
On Tuesday, Mexican President Vicente Fox said that authorities on both sides of the border bear responsibility for lawlessness in the area.
“On that side and this side there is organized crime; on that side and this side there is drug consumption,” Fox said. “The question is: All those drugs that cross over there, how do they get to the consumers? What is it that is being done on that side?”
He added, “The invitation is to work together.”
Fox’s comments came days after Govs. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Janet Napolitano of Arizona called new attention to border security by declaring emergencies in seven southern counties, citing shortcomings by the U.S. federal government.
Agents patrolling Mexico's border facing more dangers
Those tracking smugglers of drugs and immigrants are being attacked at a growing rate
Assaults against U.S. Border Patrol agents nearly doubled along the Mexican border over the past year as patrols cracking down on drug trafficking and migrant smuggling encountered increasing resistance — including the use of rocks, Molotov cocktails and gunfire.
At least 687 assaults against agents were reported during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up from the previous year's total of 354 and the highest since the agency began tracking assaults across the Southwest border in the late 1990s, according to
Nova Chemicals forms joint venture in Mexico
NOVA Chemicals Corp. said on Friday it reached a joint venture agreement with privately-held Mexican firm Grupo Idesa to produce and distribution polystyrene for the construction and packaging industries in Mexico.
The new company, to be called Novidesa, will also distribute NOVA Chemicals' solid polystyrene in Mexico. The joint venture will be formed by a cashless transaction and is expected to begin operations by September.
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Smugglers Selling Sick Puppies From Mexico
Smugglers are buying puppies at rock-bottom prices in Mexico and selling them in the United States for up to $1,000, often to owners who later discover the canines are too sick or too young to survive on their own, authorities said.
The Border Puppy Task Force a group of 18 animal control and health agencies and animal protection groups said Tuesday a two-week operation at San Diego's two border crossings confirmed what they long suspected: Mexico is a breeding ground for unscrupulous puppy peddlers.
"It's a profit-driven practice, it's a disturbing practice," said Capt. Aaron
India, Mexico sign five accords
India and Mexico today signed five agreements for enhancing cooperation in education, science and technology and other areas, providing major impetus to bilateral ties.
The accords are on cooperation between diplomatic academies, cultural and educational exchange programmes for 2005-07, programme for cooperation in science and technology and for exemption of visa requirements for official and diplomatic passport holders.
They were signed after wide-ranging discussions between Minister of State for External Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh and visiting Mexican Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Lourdes Aranda Bezaury who led their respective delegations at the fourth India-Mexico Joint Commission
WASHINGTON -- The Mexican staging area for illegal aliens that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson demanded this week be bulldozed is among hundreds of similar sites along the border sponsored and maintained by the Mexican government.
Many of the sites are marked with blue flags and pennants to signal that water is available. Others, such as the Las Chepas site that Mr. Richardson denounced, are a collection of old, mostly abandoned buildings or ranch houses where illegals gather for water and other supplies -- sometimes bartering with smugglers, or "coyotes," for
Coyotes Openly Do Business in Mexico
Sidling up to migrants who arrive at the Tijuana airport and cruising the streets in border towns, coyotes in gold chains and dark sunglasses openly find customers for nightly scrambles across the U.S. border.
Mexicos president offered to crack down on smuggling at a recent summit with President Bush. But close to 100 smuggling gangs are still operating, government officials say, in plain sight of Mexican law enforcement.
While drug smugglers are invisible for the most part, people smugglers are visible, working right in front of authorities, said Tijuana border expert Victor Clark, who has
U.S. flights to Mexico fail to cut migrant deaths
A U.S. government program that returns illegal immigrants to Mexico by flying them deep into the country is ineffective at reducing the number of deaths in the Arizona desert, analysts said on Wednesday.
The Interior Repatriation Program of daily charter flights from Tucson to Mexico City and Guadalajara was implemented in 2004 to cut deaths in the summer months.
Instead of dropping the migrants near the border as is usually done, the program flies them hundreds of miles inside Mexico. The idea was to deter migrants from immediately reattempting to cross the border via
Dana Corp. dissolves joint venture in Mexico
Dana Corp. announced plans to acquire full ownership of several operations based in Mexico, following the dissolution of its joint venture with DESC S.A. de C.V., known as Spicer S.A. de C.V.
Dana will assume 100 percent ownership of operations that make and assemble axles and driveshafts, as well as forging and foundry operations in which the company now holds an indirect 49-percent interest.
DESC, in turn, will assume full ownership of the transmission and aftermarket gasket operations in which it now holds a 51-percent interest.
The transactions are expected to close in the first quarter of
India, Mexico to hold joint commission meeting on Oct 21
India and Mexico will hold their two-day joint commission meeting here from October 21 to explore avenues for enhancing bilateral cooperation in diversified areas.
A number of agreements for cooperation are expected to be signed during the meeting.
The 20-member Mexican delegation, led by Lourdes Aranda Bezaury, vice Minister for foreign affairs, consists of officials of the ministries of trade, investment, culture, energy, tourism and science and technology. The Indian side will be led by Minister of state for external affairs, Rao Inderjit Singh.
Mexico has emerged as the largest destination for India's
Economics
The U.S. dollar is an acceptable form of currency in businesses all around the city and vicinity.
Tijuana is particularly famous among the millions of U.S. college students who flock to its location each year in search of an easily accessed place with few inhibitions and a legal drinking age of eighteen.
Due to Tijuana's proximity to the USA and its cheap labor, it is an attractive city for companies to establish extensive industrial parks comprised of maquiladoras where foreign companies employ thousands, usually in assembly related labor. This makes Tijuana an attractive city for poor migrant workers originating from the center
