A Pressing Agenda for AMLO and Biden
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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US Judge Blocks Biden’s Lifting of Title 42
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days before the controversial Title 42 restriction imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump in March 2020 allowing Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to turn away migrants with the goal of preventing the spread of covid-19 was due to expire on Monday, May 23, a federal judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, late Friday,
Read moreUS Border Town Braces for More Migrants as Partisan Fights Rage on
XINHUA HIDALGO, Texas — It’s a scene straight out of a “Mission: Impossible” episode: A helicopter hovers at low altitude above a roadside jungle while several officers search on foot along the bush edges with a dozen vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies stopping by. But for people living in Hidalgo, a county near the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas, the
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUS Closes Del Rio Border Passage, Sends Haitians Home
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Faced with a surging flood of undocumented migrants, mostly from Haiti, at the Del Rio, Texas, border, the U.S. government on Sunday, Sept. 19, closed off the Mexican border in that city indefinitely and began flying some of the illegal immigrants back to their homeland. Yellow tape and government vehicles blocked the path of
Read moreTexas Governor Will Build Border Wall
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Wednesday, June 16, that his state will build a border wall along the state’s boundary with Mexico. Speaking during a press conference in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, Abbott said he would discuss the plan in great detail next week, but said that his government has been
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
Read moreTexas Governor Tells Biden to ‘Step Up and Secure Borders’
XINHUA Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the weekend urged the U.S. federal government to take action to end the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. During a press conference in Weslaco near the U.S.-Mexico border, the governor called on U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to take “immediate action” to end the humanitarian crisis. “Operation Lone Star
Read moreThe View from the North: Chaos at the Border
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. It was refreshing to hear Texas Governor Greg Abbott of Texas challenge the chaos (and lawlessness) at the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend. The situation has gone way beyond a debate over unaccompanied kids on the border. It is now about encouraging criminal elements in Mexico to come north, as the governor said in an interview
Read moreLessons Learned from the Tex-Mex Electrical Outages
By RICARDO CASTILLO While here in Mexico, President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, March 3, was celebrating the 58 to 48 passage (with 22 abstentions) of his electricity reform bill the night before by the Senate, back in Texas the state government was busy issuing walking papers to nonprofit Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) CEO Bill Magness, considered
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