AFP | US authorities on Wednesday filed charges against two companies on charges they exploited hundreds of Indian and Thai workers who earned a pittance and were forced to stay in decrepit conditions. In what it called its largest ever human trafficking case in the farm sector, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that contractor Global Horizons brought in some 200 Thai men on promises of high-paying jobs.

LA Time | Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads a list of 19 so-called "stakeholders" who will meet with President Obama at the White House to discuss immigration reform Tuesday afternoon.

Salon | Producing and distributing illegal drugs is a profitable business, because there will always be a lot of demand and because illegality allows you to charge a great deal of money. That illegality also means that the people who produce and distribute the drugs are generally not responsible corporate citizens. So thanks to our expensive, terribly ineffective and endless war on drugs, lots of people are dying.

Daily Mail | The Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration looks set to be brought to Alabama after the state's House of Representatives passed the measure. Despite opposition from Democrats and civil rights groups, it was passed by 73 votes to 28 on Tuesday and will now go to the Alabama Senate for a vote. The bill gives state and local police broad powers to check the immigration status of people detained on other charges.

Fox News | American teenagers are being recruited by Mexican drug cartels to carry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas law enforcement officials say.  Over the past 10 years, 476 juveniles have been caught with drugs at a port of entry in El Paso County and 302 of them were U.S. citizens, according to the El Paso County attorney's office. It’s a scary trend authorities are trying to stop. “They’re being presented with this in the high schools now as a viable option for making money, ” said Border Patrol Agent David Zapp.

CBS News | South of El Paso, Texas, on Mexico's side of the border, lies Juarez - the most dangerous city in the world. CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports ATF Special Agent Rene Jaquez has been stationed there for the past year, trying to keep U.S. guns from being trafficked into Mexico.

HumanEvents.com | The United States government is funding the National Council of La Raza with our tax dollars. La Raza, which literally means in Spanish “The Race,” is a radical organization that advocates open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. I pulled and analyzed the tax return Form 990, the form filed by 501(c) 3 organizations to the IRS, and here is what was reported:

 Washington Post | More than half the children in California are Latinos, according to new census statistics that show the nation's most populous state rapidly approaching the day when Hispanics overtake whites as the largest minority.

Tribune | President Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderón shake hands during their joint news conference Thursday at the White House. A trucking deal was the only substantive take-away from their meeting.Related President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced a solution Thursday to their long-running dispute over the passage of trucks across the border, settling one of the issues that has aggravated tensions between the two countries.

Examniner | On the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric last evening, the lead story focused on a whistleblower within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (the ATF) who alleges deep corruption within the agency. A plethora of charges were made involving illegal gun smuggling into Mexico and phony straw purchases of firearms at a gun store in Phoenix.

PublicIntegrity.org | Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased and retained by suspected straw buyers with the expectation they might cross the border and even be used in crimes while the case was being built, according to documents and interviews.

AFP | A two-month operation by U.S. authorities has led to the arrests of 678 gang members from 113 different gangs, including 13 linked to Mexican drug cartels, a top law enforcement official said Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) teamed up with 170 law enforcement agencies around the country for operation "Southern Tempest" targeting violent gangs linked to international drug trafficking organizations.

Narco News | The Big Clubs in Mexico’s Drug War Aren’t Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole. Another series of leaked State Department cables made public this week by WikiLeaks lend credence to investigative reports on gun trafficking and the drug war published by Narco News as far back as 2009. The big battles in the drug war in Mexico are “not being fought with Saturday night specials, hobby rifles and hunting shotguns,” Narco News reported in March 2009, against the grain, at a time when the mainstream media was pushing a narrative that assigned the blame for the rising tide of weapons flowing into Mexico to U.S. gun stores and gun shows.

NumbersUSA.com | The Kansas State House has repealed an existing law that allows illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher learning. Current Kansas law allows illegal aliens who attended a Kansas high school for at least three years and graduate to receive the in-state tuition benefit. The bill to reverse that law passed 69-to-49.

AP | A rapidly expanding federal program that identifies illegal immigrants when they’re arrested and fingerprinted became operational in Denver and in El Paso and Arapahoe counties on Tuesday. Colorado Department of Public Safety spokesman Lance Clem said Secure Communities was launched in the three jurisdictions, the pilot sites in the state for the program. Colorado is the 39th state to join the program, which is active in more than 1,000 jurisdictions in the country, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which operates Secure Communities.