ACLU challenges US deportation practices
June 5, 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court, alleging that Border Patrol and immigration officers are guilty of coercing hundreds, or possibly thousands of Mexican nationals into signing their own deportation documents and forfeiting their righ....... [more] 
AI: Mexico must investigate disappearances
June 5, 2013
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday called on the Mexican government to investigate the disappearances of thousands of people and acknowledge the government's involvement in the disappearances. AI's report said 26,121 people were reported disappeared or missing between December 2006 and December 2....... [more]
Senate Judiciary Committee approves immigration reform bill
May 22, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved S. 744, an immigration reform bill. The bill, entitled the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, is intended to help create a 13-year path to citizenship for the approximately 11 million current undocumented immi....... [more]
Texas group sued to block border fence construction
May 16, 2013
On May 16, 2008, the Texas Border Coalition, a group of Texas-based business owners and officials, filed a class action lawsuit to enjoin the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from constructing a fence on the US-Mexico border. The group claimed that approval of the fence's construction violated....... [more]
UN urges Mexico to protect human rights, reduce military policing
May 4, 2013
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns urged Mexico's Government on Friday to increase protections for human rights, particularly reducing the need to use force and reducing the military's involvement in policing. Heyns stated that establishing a....... [more]
The Laws Driving Mexico's 'Educational Reform' are Troubled From the Outset
April 16, 2013
JURIST Guest Columnist Felipe Alberto Herrera, Northwestern Law School Class of 2013, discusses the effects of the recent educational reforms in Mexico...Over the past several weeks, national education reform has become a sizzling topic of debate in Mexico. The debate climaxed with the February arre....... [more]
Mexico Attorney General resigned
April 1, 2013
On April 1, 2011, Mexico Attorney General Arturo Chavez resigned, citing personal reasons, although international criticism of his suitability for the position had begun eighteen months earlier with his initial appointment. A leaked US diplomatic cable called his appointment "unexpected." He failed....... [more]
Federal judge upholds Arizona ethnic studies prohibition
March 13, 2013
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona has upheld the constitutionality of an Arizona law prohibiting public schools from offering courses that teach ethnic solidarity, a law which targeted the Mexican-American studies program in Tucson public schools. In the ruling issued on....... [more]
Mexico legislature votes to remove criminal immunity for lawmakers
March 7, 2013
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies voted 376-56 on Tuesday to remove criminal immunity for federal lawmakers. The bill, which contains proposed amendments to the country's constitution, seeks to subject federal senators and deputies to the criminal justice system. The lawmakers, including high-ranking fed....... [more]
Mexico security forces participated in forced disappearances: HRW
February 22, 2013
Mexican security forces have enforced or participated in widespread "disappearances" in which individuals are taken against their will, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday. The rights group has documented at least 250 "disappearances" since 2007. In most of these cases, security forces faile....... [more]
Transocean agrees to $1.4 billion settlement over Gulf oil spill
January 4, 2013
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced a settlement with Transocean Deepwater Inc. for the company's role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Transocean pleaded guilty to "negligently discharging oil into the Gulf of Mexico," in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and will....... [more]
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