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Fires Contained But the Damage is Done
 Sydney Morning Herald
Firefighters say they're making progress against California's wildfires but about 22,000 homes remain threatened by the blazes that have killed at least nine people, gutted 1800 properties and caused over $1billion of damage.
Promised Social Change in Ecuador
 Stephen Lendman
Raphael Correa was elected Ecuador’s president last November and took office January 15 promising social change. He’s the country’s eighth president in the last decade including three previous ones driven from office by mass street protest opposition against their misrule and public neglect.
Devices Explode at Mexican Consulate in New York
 Reuters
Police were investigating the explosion of two makeshift explosive devices outside the Mexican Consulate in New York on Friday, police said.
Bush Rules Out Any Détente with Cuba
 Jim Lobe
Insisting that the recent transition in Cuba represents "the dying gasps of a failed regime", U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday vowed to maintain Washington's nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba until its government "has adopted in word and deed fundamental freedoms."
Boeing Criticized Over Border Security Glitches
 Jim Wolf
Republicans and Democrats criticized Boeing Co and the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday for a belated, glitch-plagued security pilot program being set up along 28 miles of the Arizona-Mexico border.
US Senators Want Full Story on Man with TB
 Eileen Sullivan
Federal officials have provided conflicting accounts for why a Mexican man with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was able to cross the border into the U.S. multiple times this spring, two senators said Wednesday.
Doubts Over Bush Plan on Mexico Drugs
 Lourdes Heredia
President George W Bush's request for $500m to help Mexico in its fight against organised crime may run into opposition from more than one side.
US Feds Scrap Plan to Pay Texas Landowners
 Alicia A. Caldwell
Opponents of the fence refused federal workers access to their land last month in South Texas. About the same time, the government offered to pay some property owners $3,000 in exchange for permission to conduct surveys for the project.
New Evacuees Join Nearly 1M Displaced by Fires
 CNN News
More San Diego County residents faced orders to leave their homes early Wednesday as wildfires threatened new areas of charred, smoke-choked Southern California.
Socialist Presidential Ticket: Moore and Alexander
 Peace and Freedom Party
Socialist Party USA and Peace and Freedom Party shared a mutual victory on Saturday, October 20, in St Louis, Missouri. During the National Convention of Social Party USA, Brian Moore was nominated as the presidential candidate to represent the party’s national campaign ticket and Stewart A. Alexander was nominated as the vice presidential candidate.
California Wildfires Burn Through the Night 
 Dana Ford
Wildfires burned unchecked on Tuesday in Southern California from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to evacuate, at least 700 homes destroyed, and little hope for relief from the hot desert winds fanning the flames.
Bush Unveils Aid Package for Mexico
 Associated Press
President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve $500 million to help Mexico fight drug trafficking, the first installment of a $1.4 billion aid package for the United States' southern neighbor.
Chertoff Waives Laws for Border Fence
 Associated Press
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday invoked his power to bypass certain laws to restart construction of a fence on the Arizona-Mexico border.
Fires Wreak Havoc on Malibu
 Reuters
Fast-moving wildfires are causing panic in southern California and destroying some of the state's priciest oceanfront real estate. The fires come as no surprise. This is the height of the traditional wildfire season and the hills are tinder dry.
Bush Set to Unveil Rest of Emergency Funding Request
 David Rogers
President Bush is slated to unveil the final pieces today of a $196 billion-plus emergency funding request for the war in Iraq and larger battle against terrorism, including new assistance to help Mexico battle drug trafficking along the U.S. border.
Wind-Fuelled Wildfires Rage Across Tinder-Dry California
 AFP
Wind-whipped wildfires raged across California on Monday, sparking mass evacuations and besieging thousands of homes and buildings from Los Angeles to the Mexican border.
US Town Tightens Border Using Low-Tech Ways
 Kevin G. Hall
Taking the low-tech approach, the Border Patrol erected three miles of fencing this year around Columbus, NM. The success of such low-tech efforts stands out against the difficulties the Department of Homeland Security is having rolling out its high-tech "virtual fence."
Victims of Shipwreck Off Mexican Coast Were Salvadoran Migrants Headed to U.S.
 Associated Press
Most of the passengers on a boat that capsized off Mexico's Pacific coast last week, killing at least 15, were Salvadoran migrants headed to the United States, President Tony Saca said on Sunday.
One Dead, Thousands Evacuated in US Fires
 LATimes/Reuters
Thousands of Southern Californian homes could be at risk in the coming days as powerful winds continue to stoke fires that have killed one person, destroyed 31 houses and forced thousands of people to evacuate homes from the celebrity enclave of Malibu to the Mexican border.
US Border Security, Lines Grow
 Julia Preston
Lines at U.S. border crossings are growing as U.S. border agents step up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays. It is a dress rehearsal for new rules, taking effect in January, that will require Americans to show a passport or other proof of citizenship to enter the U.S.
Mexican Fugitive in B.C. Gets Court Reprieve
 Edmonton Journal
A Mexican union leader living in exile in Vancouver is one step closer to returning home, thanks to a court ruling in Mexico. Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, 61, a miners' union boss has won a court order that protects him from arrest should he return home.
Bush to Unveil "New Initiatives" on Cuba
 Agence France Presse
US President George W. Bush is to unveil "new initiatives" to help Cubans and push for democracy in the communist-run nation, the White House said Friday.
U.S. Cash, Chinese Steel
 John Guerriero
Another Great Wall of China is being built - this time along the U.S.-Mexico border. That's what U.S. Rep. Phil English calls part of a border security fence that was built with steel pipes made in China.
Refugee Tide Slows to Canada
 Don Lajoie
With refugee claimants continuing to arrive in Windsor on a near-daily basis, local officials charged with handling the influx are hoping a new Canadian government advertising campaign in Florida has a quick effect.
New US Visas Offered to Crime Victims
 Roxana Hegeman
Illegal immigrants who are victims of violent crimes in the U.S. can now apply for special visas, seven years after Congress offered protection against deportation to those who cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
US Lawmakers Up In Arms Over TB Incident
 United Press International
Lawmakers want the U.S. government to explain why a man infected with a highly contagious form of tuberculosis was allowed to repeatedly enter the country.
Severe Weather Hits Much of U.S.
 Reuters
From the nation's mid-section to the Southeast, dozens of tornados and torrential rain has left devastation in its wake. The violent weather has left hundreds homeless and a good part of the country cleaning up.
DHS Criticized for Chinese Steel in US-Mexico Fence
 Ian Swanson
House members allied with the domestic steel industry blasted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday for building a fence on the Mexican border with steel products from China.
US, Mexican Officials Launch Effort Against Smugglers
 Associated Press
U.S. Border Patrol officials and their Mexican law enforcement counterparts have launched a new effort to investigate and dismantle human smuggling organizations in the El Paso area.
DOT Inspection of Mexican Truck Fails to Impress
 Jami Jones
The staged inspection of the first Mexico-based truck to deliver a load in the U.S. as part of the Bush administration’s cross-border program proved nothing, according to numerous opponents of the program.
Humanitarian Group Reports Increase in Arizona/Sonora Border Deaths
 KSWT 13
A humanitarian group is reporting an increase in illegal border crossers dying in the desert. But numbers in the Yuma Sector are showing some improvement. However those stats are fewer in this area due to strict border enforcement.
UN: Private Military Recruiting Booming
 Associated Press
The use of private security guards like those involved in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians is part of a growing new form of mercenary activity - the recruitment of people around the globe to peform military jobs in other nations, a U.N. report says.
Alleged Member of Vast Mexican Drug Cartel Returned to L.A.
 Greg Krikorian
Five years after his indictment by a federal grand jury, an alleged drug lord in Mexico was returned to Los Angeles on Wednesday to face charges that he was part of a vast cartel that supplied hundreds of pounds of cocaine each year to California, Alaska and other states.
Officials Promote Binational Trucking
 Paul M. Krawzak
U.S. and Mexican officials staged a mock inspection of one American and one Mexican truck yesterday to drive home their message that a pilot program allowing Mexican trucks full access to U.S. highways is safe.
Report Says Mexico Violence Could Hit US
 Associated Press
Drug-related violence in Mexico could spill into the United States, where the border area is vulnerable because law enforcement is poorly coordinated, undersupplied and sometimes corrupt, a consultant's report says.
Fleeing to US, Cubans’ First Stop Is Often Mexico
 Marc Lacey
Cubans are migrating to the United States in the greatest numbers in over a decade, and for most of them the new way to get north is first to head west — to Mexico — in a convoluted route that avoids the United States Coast Guard.
U.S., Mexico Plan $8.5 Billion Anti-Drug Effort
 Kristin Roberts
The United States and Mexico plan to unveil an $8.5 billion counternarcotics program to stem the flow of drugs headed north and curb violence among drug gangs, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
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