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		<title>The Border Patrol Makes a Record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexico recognized the power of song by outlawing recordings of drug ballads &#8211; or narcocorridos -  in an effort to dampen popular enthusiasm for the violent drug-lord heroes.  The U.S. Border Patrol is hoping Border Patrol Ballads &#8211; or Migra Corridos &#8211; will dampen popular enthusiasm for heading north. Produced by the D.C.-based Hispanic advertising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=97</link>
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		<title>As U.S. Economy Goes South&#8230;So Do Immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many immigrants the recession means it&#8217;s time to head home. With unemployment among Mexican immigrants at 9.7 percent in January (up from 4.5 percent last March) Foreign Policy reports expert predictions of an exodus of nearly three million people. Mexico&#8217;s central bank announced in late January that 20,000 of the migrants who returned for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Webcam project unsuprisingly ineffective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas governor Rick Perry awarded a $2 million federal grant to the Texas Border Sheriff&#8217;s Coalition to set up a series of webcams that can be monitored by the public&#8230;enjoy.  The El Paso Times has done a bit of digging and found their progress for the first 6 months of the program: Border cameras by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Nashville voters defeat English-only referendum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By nearly 10,000 votes, Nashville citizens put the final nail in the coffin of the &#8216;English First&#8217; initiative.  The group Nashville for All of Us is largely responsible for the overwhelming turnout, the largest for a special election in a decade.  If you&#8217;d like to let them know how you appreciate their phone banking, fund [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>English-only referendum in Nashville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Voters in Nashville go to the polls today to vote on a referendum that could make the city the largest in the country with a English-only law. The ballot measure, organized by Eric Crafton, seeks to bar government officials from communicating in any language other than english.  This would prevent the city from providing translation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Bush pardons Ramos and Compean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story should make our friend Britt quite happy. Ramos and Compean are two U.S. Border Patrol agents convicted of covering up the shooting.  Bush has pardoned the sentence rather than the crime, so thankfully the two men will not return to service with the Border Patrol. Here&#8217;s the link to the AP story.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=71</link>
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		<title>Beto O&#8217;Rourke goes national</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I mentioned the courageous action of El Paso city councilman, Beto O&#8217;Rourke.  He brought forward a resolution to express the solidarity of the city of El Paso with its neighbor, Ciudad Juarez, in light of the horrific violence occuring there. The resolution which passed the city council, was swiftly vetoed by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=70</link>
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		<title>Altered landscapes on the U.S.-Mexico border</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War, we set a monument in the ground establishing the new southwestern boundary of the United States.  In 1971, Patricia Nixon would stand in that spot on the beach just north of Tijuana and call it Friendship Park.  People from the U.S. and from Mexico had been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=64</link>
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		<title>El Paso calls for national discussion on drug legalization&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and before the resolution could draw its first breath, it was vetoed by mayor John Cook.  The fact that it was vetoed is no surprise, the fact that it passed through the council 5-3 was impressive enough to keep some at the El Paso Times working late. The resolution was put forward by Beto O&#8217;Rourke.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year, Juarez&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the body count was back to zero, if only momentarily. Earlier in December, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora released some of the grim statistics from the ever bloodier drug war. The number of gangland killings reached 5,376 from the beginning of the year until Dec. 2, a 117 percent increase over the 2,477 killings in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.borderstories.org/blog/?p=58</link>
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