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N.M., MEXICO AGREE TO RAZE TOWN TO DETER IMMIGRATION:
LAS CRUCES, N.M — The dusty Mexican community of Las Chepas (search) is home to only about 35 full-time residents, but U.S. border patrol agents say a caravan of old school buses and vans hauls people into the town every day. Las Chepas, authorities say, is a staging ground for would-be immigrants and drug and human smugglers.
I was at first suprised. Mexico is strongly in favor of illegal immigration to America from Mexico. How could this have happened, I wondered. The article contains the answer:
On Friday, the governors of New Mexico and its southern neighbor, the Mexican state of Chihuahua, agreed to bulldoze or board up the lawless town's abandoned buildings to stem the illegal activity there.
So New Mexico worked out a deal with a neighboring Mexican state government, not with the Mexican national government.
Way to go New Mexico! And, of course, New Mexico's Governor, Bill Richardson!