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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; On March 28, 2008, my “Death by Media” article was published. The article dealt with how the US press had literally scared the pants off of people, and visiting Baja with emphasis on Tijuana, all but stopped. The reports that visitors to Baja were in danger were tremendously exaggerated and overly dramatized was the basis of the “Death by Media.”</p>

<p><strong>America</strong><strong>’s Voice</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; ¿Quién decidirá si la frontera común con México llena los requisitos de seguridad que permitirían considerar en el Congreso un plan de reforma migratoria amplia? Quién sabe.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Lo que sí se sabe es que la seguridad fronteriza es buen tema de año electoral.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Can’t some people read or comprehend the United States Constitution?&nbsp; Don’t they understand the “supremacy” clause of the Constitution?&nbsp; In a phrase— federal law trumps local and state law, federal law is supreme in our land.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Arizona is finding that out the hard way.</p>

   Hijole, Arizona feeling the pinch of the Boycott. Phoenix hotels have lost $11.8 million to conference cancellations since SB 1070 became law.

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<p><strong>SPECIAL COMIDA EDITION</strong></p>

<p>Frontera NorteSur</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As the US House of Representatives approved a $600 million border security bill August 10, polemics over the safety of the US-Mexico border intensified. In language reminiscent of Iraq and Afghanistan, New Mexico Democratic Congressman Harry Teague praised the passage of the 2010 Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriation Bill (6080) as a concrete gesture of support for the first-term representative’s “border security surge.”</p>

<p><strong>Heriberto Escamilla Ph.D.</strong></p>