Another boy was nursing head injuries after being repeatedly hit with a blunt object last Friday afternoon. A fourth man, also believed to be a gang member, was being sought in connection with the shooting. It is a common relationship. That money amounts to the fourth- largest component of Mexico's gross national product. It keeps scores of Mexican villages alive.
Mexican labor is the backbone of many blue- collar industries in Colorado and the nation.
In the state of Zacatecas, where El Tepetate lies, U.S. money sent home by family and relatives is the main source of income for its residents, according to the Mexican government. Fox hopes to use the moral authority he's developing as an honest, ideologically flexible conservative to forge a new relationship with the US when the two presidents meet. Congressional Democrats are proposing the amnesty, but most in Bush's own Republican Party oppose the idea. The opposition of most Iowans to an immigrant recruitment campaign could spell trouble for Gov. Tom Vilsack and one of his strategies to help Iowa grow. Some of the strongest opposition comes from union households, a core Democratic constituency that helped elect him in 1998.