By a vote of 9 to 2, Mexico’s Supreme Court upheld a Mexico City law allowing same-sex couples to adopt children. The Court found that heterosexual couples, divorced parents, single parents, and same-sex couples share equal protection under the Mexican constitution and therefore denying any of these groups the right to adopt is discriminatory.  

Since 2001, preventive detention has become almost commonplace as a means of "incapacitating" terrorist networks. No other development - with the possible exception of the use of extreme interrogation techniques - has been as controversial, or as uncomfortably reconciled with conventional legal practices. But there are legitimate uses of preventive detention that respect the legal principles of protection of civil liberties. Download full document

With Arizona’s immigration law SB 1070 slated to go into effect on July 29, legislators around the country continue to look at similar restrictive measures toward undocumented immigrants. The U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit filed against Arizona on July 7 may delay implementation of the law or permanently strike it down, but, either way, state legislators are increasingly acting to take federal policy into their own hands. http://www.as-coa.org/article.php?id=2521

In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert C. Bonner recommends that Mexico and the United States should build Mexican policing capacity and rule of law instead of depending on military might in the shared fight against drug cartels.

The frontrunner in the race for governor of border state Tamaulipas was assassinated Monday, along with four members of his campaign.

New York's Daily News examines reports that Hispanics are deserting Arizona before the July 29 implementation of tough new immigration law SB1070.

In his address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on May 20 during his Washington visit, Mexican President Felipe Calderón stated that Arizona's controversial new immigration law signifies an acceptance of racial profiling, and also called for the United States to reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban.

As Mexico's appalling murder rate rises past 3,000 in 2010 so far, President Calderón's "war on drugs" has yet to bring peace and stability to his country.