Links

To learn more about the current issues and historical background regards border towns such as
Palomas and Ciudad Juarez, please click on the links below.

Selection of News Reports on Growing Violence and Resistance By Townspeople
El Paso Inc - Jan 2010 -
Palomas Businesses Try To Stay Open
LA Times - Feb 2010 - Police Baffled by Shooting of Teens
Reuters - Feb 2010 - Families Slam Mexico's Calderon
CNN - Mar 2010 - 3 People Associated with US Consulate Killed
Salem News - April 2010 - Rebelling Against Death...
Fox - April 2010 - 7 Mexican Police Officers Killed

Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Book by Charles Bowden (May 2010)

Ciudad Juarez: The Serial Killers Playground
TruTv, by Michael Newton


Immigration timeline
Frontline: A brief look at US policy toward immigration and border security with Mexico over the past
60 years including legislation on the right to education for illegals

Deadly violence along the border with Mexico isn’t exactly new
New Mexico Independent 3 August 2009, commentary on crime and rising unemployment in
Ciudad Juarez and Palomas

Border drug war is too close for comfort
Los Angeles Times 19 February 2009 on drug wars in Palomas spilling into Columbus, New
Mexico

Hispanic students attack Anglos in Deming, New Mexico
Ground Report article 23 September 2008

Border kids caught in drug war
MSNBC news report 22 May 2008 on war between drug cartels and the police

Border officials fear growing drug war
MSNBC news report 23 May 2008 on how the drug war has engulfed Palomas

Young migrants in the borderlands: femicide in Ciudad Juárez and the state discourse and
initiatives on female working class, brown citizens in the border
Academic paper by Chew, M. and Prieto, L. - 27 May 2003

Path to Mexican soul always special
Clovis News Journal 6 March 2008, opinion piece on Palomas

Just south of the medical border
Mexconnect 1 Jan 2005 commentary on what draws Americans to border towns like Palomas;
warmer climes and inexpensive medical care

Shutting the door
PBS newshour transcript on impact of immigration reform on school children along US-Mexico
border, 18 December 1997

Border tradition on the line: Community rallies behind Mexican studies
About the dispute where 22 Mexican students were disenrolled from Deming school district in
1997. From Rethinking Schools, Spring 1997
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