Friday Mexico, Border Violence and Immigration Update

As always, there’s a lot happening with Mexico, the border and the U.S. response.  Here’s a quick roundup:

• The U.S. and Mexico’s relationship is deepening, including sharing information, soldier training, fighting the drug cartels together, intelligence gathering and human rights protection.  Much more information here.
• As immigration officials increasingly try to deport people under President Barack Obama’s enforcement strategy, they’re, um, deporting the wrong people.  From ProPublica:  “immigration officials had either tried to deport the wrong people or requested dismissal because they didn’t have enough evidence to justify deportation.”  That’s comforting.
• Residents of Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas in a remote region of the Texas-Mexico border are fleeing because of reported death threats from drug cartels.  About 300 people have fled so far, according to reports.  Los Zetas purportedly yelled in the streets that they would kill everyone who remained in town last week.
• Predator drones, the ones used to kill people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, are now being deployed increasing along the U.S.-Mexico border.  Scary news if you’re a border resident, even if officials report the drones are to be used only for surveillance, we all remember Ezequiel Hernandez, though, so who knows.
• Nancy Pelosi is working towards getting a DREAM Act vote in the House of Representatives, at least that what she says.