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Following Texas Gov. Rick Perry's authorization to deploy 1,000 National Guardsman to the Mexican border, many residents of the Lone Star state are wondering what took so long

Following Texas Gov. Rick Perry's authorization to deploy 1,000 National Guardsman to the Mexican border, many residents of the Lone Star state are wondering what took so long. Landowners like Lorenzo Anzaldua have seen their property turned into a virtual highway for scores of women and children desperately racing across the border. Anna Werner reports.

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With perceived promises of safety and amnesty in the U.S., the flood of immigrants from south and central America has increased greatly in the last year. A large number of those attempting the long trek to freedom are children

With perceived promises of safety and amnesty in the U.S., the flood of immigrants from south and central America has increased greatly in the last year. A large number of those attempting the long trek to freedom are children. As Manuel Bojorquez found out, the route north is littered with danger.

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A 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl has been found inside a huge underground chamber in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico

A 12,000-year-old skeleton of a teenage girl has been found inside a huge underground chamber north of the city of Tulum, in the eastern part of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Research done on her skeleton and DNA just released by the journal Science bolsters the theory that pioneers arrived from Asia by way of a land bridge that has long since disappeared.

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