http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32724.pdf

Discusses current issues in Mexican-U.S. relations, including drug trafficking, migration, border security, human rights and foreign trade. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.

http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/06-984

6-3 Supreme Court decision that the failure of U.S. authorities to warn arrested foreign nationals of their rights should not cause the reopening of a case involving a Texas murder. A Mexican national, Jose Medellin, was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two teenage girls. The Bush administration sought a new trial for Medellin in a case that mixed international relations, presidential power, and the death penalty. The International Court of Justice ruled in 2004 that the conviction of Medellin and 50 other Mexicans on death rows in the U.S. violated the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. From Findlaw. Com.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR56/ERR56.pdf

Uses food expenditure and sales data for 1990-2004 to examine whether food consumption trends in middle-income countries such as China and Mexico are following trends in high-income countries. Finds that benefits of increased choices of foods in middle-income countries are leading to problems of high-calorie foods and increasing obesity. From the Economic Research Service.

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB837.pdf

Argues that gangs lead to political instability at the national, regional and global level. Focuses on the effects of transnational criminal organizations in Central America, Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil. From the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ntz_rates508.pdf

Fact Sheet which documents variations in naturalization rates for immigrants from Asia, Mexico, and Europe. From the Office of Immigration Statistics of the Department of Homeland Security.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf

Provides an overview of Mexican drug cartels, the scope of their operations, the quantity of illict drugs entering the U.S. from Mexico, the presence of Mexican cartel cells in the U.S., and the extent of Mexican political corruption caused by the cartels. Also examines policy approaches to the problem of drug trafficking and violence. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/91311.pdf

Outlines how Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. intend to work together to combat an outbreak of avian influenza or an influenza pandemic in North America. From the U.S. State Department.

http://www.usitc.gov/tradeshifts/2007/default.htm

Covers key economic trade events, trends, and major developments related to key products and countries: Canada, China, European Union, India and Mexico. From the International Trade Commission.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/wrs0701/wrs0701.pdf

Describes the near conclusion of a 14 year project to phase out restrictions on agricultural trade between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. and the consequences of the project. From the Economic Research Service of the Agriculture Department.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB209/index.htm

Report released by the current Mexican government on the use of violent repression against opponents by regimes in power from the 1960s to the 1980s. Details human rights crimes such as forced disappearance, systematic torture and genocide by the administrations of Presidents Diaz Ordaz, Echeverria, and Lopez Portillo. Posted by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.