Mexico: Wounded Honor

A U.S. bill stings a neighbor

Every evening in Tijuana, scores of young men gather in an abandoned soccer field, hoping for a chance to cross the border into California. A lone U.S. Border Patrol officer blocks their passage during the day, and so the Mexicans wait for nightfall, when they can slip silently through the shadows. But over the past week they have been looking beyond the Border Patrol at a more threatening obstacle to their hope of finding jobs in the U.S.: the passage by Congress of the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill....

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