May 05, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP
	The Bush Administration Has Put Its Proposal to Militarize Mexico into the Upcoming Iraq Supplemental Bill -- On Oct. 22, 2007 President Bush announced the $1.4 billion dollar "Merida Initiative," security aid package to Mexico and Central America. The initiative has fatal flaws in its strategy; instead of leading to a stable binational relationship and peaceful border communities, its military approach will escalate drug-related violence and human rights abuses.
May 02, 2008 Huffington Post
	Two Years After the Big Immigrants Rights Marches, Where Do Things Stand? -- On May 1, 2006 millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in 140 cities in 39 states across the United States as part of a wave of mass marches that spring in repudiation of extreme anti-immigrant legislation, passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
May 01, 2008 USA Today
	North American trade deal has not helped Mexico's poor -- The spirited defense of the North American Free Trade Agreement by President Bush and his Mexican counterpart in New Orleans recently ignored an inconvenient fact — the annual number of undocumented immigrants arriving in the USA from Mexico has risen dramatically since that trade agreement's inception
April 29, 2008 John Ross
	Bad Jazz Abounds in New Orleans as Three NAFTA Leaders Huddle for the Last Time -- NEW ORLEANS (April 29th) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon was not having a good day. His plan to arrive in New Orleans for the NAFTA Summit April 21st-22nd with a freshly minted law privatizing Mexico's oil industry in his pocket had been foiled by the opposition's takeover of congress.
April 28, 2008 Washington Post
	N.Va. Hit With Cost Of School Migration -- Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new financial burden on those inner suburbs in a time of lean budgets.
April 23, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
	Dissecting the North American Summit Joint Statement: Bush's Last Stand -- On April 22, Presidents George W. Bush, Felipe Calderón, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded a trilateral summit in New Orleans. The three leaders reiterated their unconditional support for NAFTA and the SPP, urged passage of the Colombia FTA, and argued for passage of the Plan Mexico aid package.
April 22, 2008 Huffington Post
	Time to Renegotiate NAFTA, Not Expand It -- When President Bush meets his counterparts Felipe Calderon of Mexico and Stephen Harper of Canada in New Orleans this week for the fourth summit of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), NAFTA itself will not be on the agenda.
April 21, 2008 Global Exchange
	Statement on the Security & Prosperity Summit in New Orleans -- President Bush is meeting this week with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts for the fourth summit of the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which has become known as ‘NAFTA-plus’. Rather than tackle problems that have roots in the NAFTA model—including growing income gaps and worker insecurity in all three countries, as well as dramatically accelerated migration from Mexico to the United States—these leaders hope to quietly extend its reach.
April 20, 2008 Truthout
	In Mississippi, Work Is Now a Felony for Undocumented Immigrants -- Jackson, MS - On March 17, Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour signed into law the farthest-reaching employer sanctions law of any on the books in the U.S. Employer sanctions is a shorthand name for laws that prohibit employers from hiring immigrants who don't have legal immigration status in the U.S.
April 18, 2008 The Washington Post
	Mexicans Get Less Aid From Migrants -- LO DE LUNA, Mexico -- The effects of the subprime mortgage crisis and the downturn in the U.S. economy have cascaded into Mexico, causing a sudden, precipitous drop in the flow of money sent home by Mexican immigrants and highlighting this country's dependence on its wealthier northern neighbor.
April 17, 2008 Americas Program, Center for International Policy
	Two Chicken Stories: NAFTA's Real Winners and Losers -- Pedro Martin works on a chicken farm just outside the village of Pegueros, Jalisco. The state of Jalisco ranks among Mexico's top chicken-producing states, providing the nation with 11% of all chicken meat produced.
April 14, 2008 OneWorld US
	Rights Groups Applaud Trade Deal's Tabling -- SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 14 (OneWorld) - Long-time critics of corporate-friendly free trade agreements are applauding House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for effectively putting the brakes on a deal with the South American nation of Colombia.
April 12, 2008 Houston Chronicle
	Build Mexico instead of putting up a wall -- If the official minimum wage were 10 times higher in Chicago than in St. Louis, it's easy to imagine what would happen: Thousands of men and women would leave their homes and families and travel north in search of better wages and a higher standard of living. And Regardless of what Chicago did to "protect and defend" its borders, the city would find it impossible to stem the relentless tide of determined job-seekers.
April 08, 2008 Political Affairs
	Photos: The Men Who Live in the Canyon -- SAN DIEGO, CA - 31MARCH08 - Isaias, Alvino and Porfirio, three Mixtec men from Etla, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico, live in the Los Peñasquitos canyon on the north edge of San Diego.
April 02, 2008 Des Moines Register
	Don't create scapegoats: Enforce wage laws for all -- As families in Iowa struggle to make ends meet, they are justified in feeling threatened when they see what were once good jobs turned into low-wage, sweatshop labor.
March 31, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Mexican drug cartels move into human smuggling -- Agua Prieta, Mexico -- At the Center to Aid Migrants in Exodus shelter, would-be immigrants to the United States shared stories of violence at the hands of human smugglers working for drug cartels.
March 29, 2008 Common Dreams
	Forming a More Perfect Union: Beyond Black and White -- Barack Obama’s complex meditation on race in America opened a window for national reflection. Irrespective of how it impacts his quest for the presidency, his words became a catalyst in moving us to think about where we fit in the effort to narrow the gap between the ideals embodied in the U.S. Constitution and the realities we live in today. While Obama’s speech focused understandably on the historic divide between white and black Americans, it holds great resonance for all Americans, including our own Latino community.
March 25, 2008 Chicago Tribune
	NAFTA foes hope Dems' words turn into action -- WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders believes the country is ready to join his fight to overhaul American trade policy. He wants to believe Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are too.
March 15, 2008 ZNet
	NAFTA, Immigrants and the Discussion That is Not Happening -- One of the more interesting aspects of the current Presidential primary season is the renewed discussion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Implemented January 1, 1994, and by no coincidence sparking the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, NAFTA was a major step in the economic integration of the USA, Canada and Mexico under the domination of the USA.
March 13, 2008 Rabble News
	What does "NAFTA-gate" mean for social movements? -- On March 5 – the day after the Ohio Democratic primary in which the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was such a vote determining issue – activists, legislators and academics from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada gathered at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. to take a critical look at NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and what might be done about them.
March 11, 2008 Brown Daily Herald
	Speakers attack NAFTA at 'Better Neighbors' event -- Speakers attacked the North American Free Trade Agreement at a panel held at the Kassar-Foxboro Auditorium Monday night, saying it and other international pacts are good for corporations, destructive to workers and promote American hegemony over its neighbors.
March 07, 2008 Council of Canadians
	NAFTA is being renegotiated through the SPP, hears tri-national conference -- On Wednesday March 5, civil society and fair trade groups, as well as progressive legislators from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, gathered in Washington, D.C. to talk about NAFTA's real impacts on agriculture, labour, development and migration. They also explored NAFTA's evolution through the Security and Prosperity Partnership and what can be done in the coming year to develop a strong tri-national movement for a more fair, just and equitable trading model on the continent.
March 07, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle
	Hope in the time of NAFTA -- Reading articles about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton attacking NAFTA can lead you to believe the parody newspaper The Onion has taken over America's news bureaus.
March 06, 2008 New Democratic Party of Canada
	PARLIAMENTARIANS FROM THE THREE NAFTA COUNTRIES ANNOUNCE TASK FORCE ON NAFTA RENEGOTIATION -- WASHINGTON, DC – Following a conference held on March 5th at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which took a critical look at how NAFTA has impacted the North American region, legislators from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico agreed today to launch a Task Force to push for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
March 05, 2008 Reading Eagle
	Trade pact blasted at forum in Reading -- Reading, PA - The North American Free Trade Agreement was supposed to reduce trade barriers among Mexico, the U.S. and Canada, increase good-paying jobs and improve quality of life.
March 05, 2008 The Boston Globe
	Immigration and Crime -- WARMING to one of his favorite themes the other night, CNN's Lou Dobbs repeatedly invoked the phrase "criminal illegal aliens," as he did his best to feed the stereotype that illegal immigrants drive up crime. Dobbs's relentless spleen on this subject, of course, has won him a following. Seal-the-borders nativism won't get anyone elected president - just ask ex-GOP candidates Tom Tancredo, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani - but there is no denying it's good for TV ratings.
March 04, 2008 Miller-McCune
	Caution: NAFTA at Work -- Consider this scenario: A group of wealthy nations with well-established democracies is linked in a successful economic union that has dramatically increased trade, commerce and living standards. To the south, a much poorer nation is undergoing a transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian rule, at the same time moving to open its formerly closed economy to international investment and exchange.
March 04, 2008 The Vancouver Sun
	Renotiate NAFTA? Sounds like a good idea -- Two Democratic contenders for the U.S. presidency suggest they'd like to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and it's as if the sky were falling in Canada.
February 29, 2008 The San Diego Union-Tribune
	Linking NAFTA and immigration -- As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug out the Ohio round of their Democratic primary fight, the issue of NAFTA has returned to the center of debate, revealing deep, unresolved tension in the Democratic Party 15 years after the passage of the landmark trade agreement.
February 28, 2008 The Wall Street Journal
	Mexico's Illegal Drug Problems and Our Own Are Tied Together -- Kudos to Ms. O'Grady for pointing out some uncomfortable truths that the federal government and many of our elected officials are afraid to admit: The drug war is failing and prohibition has led to thousands of violent deaths in Mexico.

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