Internet Resources

"Body Count Mounts From U.S.-Mexico Border" by Ruben Martinez
Nativists may hope the mounting death toll of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border may serve as a symbolic deterrent. But in the hometown of three brothers who died in an April 6 crash following a high-speed chase by Border Patrol, the buses leave for the north almost daily -- filled with news of labor shortages in California's fields. PNS editor Ruben Martinez is a writer and performance artist based in Mexico City and Los Angeles. From the online magazine, JINN, of Pacific News Service.

Border Militarization
News and updates on the militarization of the US/Mexico border and organizing efforts to stop border violence. Information compiled by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Bordering the Future: "The Border Report" by John Sharp, Texas Comptroller
Bordering the Future offers a blueprint and an agenda for building on the many efforts already underway to lift the Texas-Mexico border region out of the poverty and neglect it has too often suffered. This report will present a viable agenda behind which lawmakers can unite in the upcoming legislative session.

Border Traffic: The Drug Trade from Mexico
5 parts series of articles on the U.S. war on drugs from the Washington Post newspaper.

Federally Supported Land Grabs: Border Area 21, Elimination of the Border Between U.S. and Mexico by Grace Wilson
Tucked beneath the coattails of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an additional agreement implementing what has come to be called the La Paz Agreement that calls for the elimination of the United States/Mexico International Border at Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas. The La Paz Agreement was implemented in January 1997 and calls for a 62.5 mile strip north and south of the border to be an open zone and will be called "Border Region 21." Article appears in the Sieera County Sentinel, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, June 11, 1997, Page 19.

Frontera Norte Sur
Monthly report on the Borderlands of North central Mexico, updated daily. Features reports across all topics and disiplines.

Immigration and Human Rights on the U.S./Mexico Border
4 part series of articles about immigration and human rights issues on the border. From the online magazine, In Motion Magazine.

Laredo Development Foundation: Los Laredos
At the center of the primary trade route connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico, and at the doorstep of Mexico's burgeoning industrial complex, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo offer markets, business opportunities and profit potential which business and industry simply cannot find anywhere else. Known locally as Los Laredos, Laredo and Nuevo Laredo are actually one city divided only by the Rio Grande River.

Mexico Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996
Report of the U.S. Department of State, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, January 30, 1997.

National Days of Reflection on Military Violence on Mexico-U.S. Border, June 20-22, 1997
Information packet of a series of articles about the killing of a Texas youth by U.S. Marines patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border. Information compiled by American Friends Service Committee.

Special Report: Violence on the Border
A series of newspaper articles (from various newspapers and news services) about violence on the border.

Tijuana/San Diego Border Research
The University of California at San Diego maintains this page which contains reports on recent San Diego/Tijuana border research projects. Input from San Diego Dialogue and EL Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) is included. Photographic sets, geographic information, and demographics are hihglighted to analyze migration and its concomitant social, environmental, and economic problems. Also includes some excellent profiles of illegal crossers of the U.S.-Mexico border.

U.S.-Mexican Policy Studies Program, The University of Texas at Austin
A research arm of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Beginning it's six year, the program is made possible by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, CA. Directed by Chandler Stolp, and Co-Directed by Sidney Weintraub, the program is made up of a team of public policy specialists who address a variety of economic, social, and political trends developing between the United States and Mexico. The researchers are assisted by graduate students who help carry out the one-to three-year research projects undertaken as part of the program.

Special Contributions

BORDER VOICES, KTEP Radio

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	Militarization of the Border Part I by Azucena Mendoza
	An account of the shoting death of youth by U.S. Marines in Del Rio, Texas, and subsequent "National Days of Refection" protest and meeting with key officials in Washington D.C.
	Militarization of the Border Part II By Azucena Mendoza
	Continuation of Part I (see above).
	Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act by Myrna Membrilla
	Account of Act's impact on illegal immigrants in the United States.

For a collection of general information resources, go to RESEARCH CENTERS and RESOURCES