At 6:30 am on March 18th ICE knocked loudly on our door. I was still asleep and my wife was in the bathroom getting ready for work.  I answered the door with a towel wrapped around me and still half asleep and they told me that there was a lady registering cars illegally to my home and asked if I knew her. They showed me a picture and I told them that I had never seen her. At this point they asked if my wife could look at the photograph as well. She did and told them she had never seen this woman. (Now as an instructor in Democracy Schools I would know not to even open the door and to ask for a warrant with her name on it signed by a Judge which was never shown to us)

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The Department of State wishes to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and residing in Mexico that on May 15 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifted its recommendation that American citizens avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico.  As a result of the CDC's decision, the State Department's Travel Alert relating to the 2009-H1N1 influenza outbreak is no longer in effect. 

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