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The Senate Judiciary Committee approved sweeping election-year immigration legislation Monday.

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Up to 12,000 protesters marched through the capital of the western US state of Arizona to denounce plans for a draconian legislative crackdown on illegal immigrants. Among the propositions under debate is the construction of an 80-kilometer (50-mile) wall sealing part of the porous US-Mexican border, and a crackdown on anyone giving succor to illegal immigrants.
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A massive rescue operation is under way in Central America and southern Mexico, where mudslides caused by a tropical storm have killed at least 250 people.
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In Mexico, President Vicente Fox has apologized for saying that Mexicans in the United States do the work that African Americans won’t. Last week Fox said “There’s no doubt that Mexican men and women — full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work — are doing the work that not even Blacks want to do in the United States.” In telephone conversations with the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Fox said he “regretted any hurt feelings.”