El Financiero (Mexico city)

Guatemalan police agent lynched
A group of neighbors in San Martin Jilotepeque, an indigenous community in western Guatemala, lynched an agent of the National Civil Police (PNC) whom they accused of extorting the driver of a public bus.  A spokesman for the PNC said the lynching happened this morning. 

The agent, 36, was captured by a mob of locals last night who accused him of extortion. 

He was disarmed by them and tied to a post, according to the spokesman, "and for several hours, subjected to blows and torture until this morning when he was doused with gasoline and burned alive."  A study by the humanitarian Mutual Help Group (GAM) in Guatemala showed that in the first nine months of 2009, 110 cases of attempted lynchings have occurred, 28 of them successful. 

Illegal Immigration Issue Led to Dobbs' Departure From CNN 

Five days ago Lou Dobbs abruptly quit his CNN anchor job. The truth behind this sudden move is beginning to emerge. Last night Bill O'Reilly made it clear that illegal immigration was the issue that forced Dobbs out of CNN. Dobbs argued that it wasn't that he was tough on illegal immigration; he said the difference was who was President of the United States.

In a few months President Obama will push legislation to legalize the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who assures her boss's jam-packed agenda won't delay his campaign promise to the influential La Raza movement. 

By early next year the country's immigration system will be overhauled, guarantees Napolitano, who is the president's point person on the matter. The former Arizona governor dispelled suggestions that the administration is too busy with health care, Middle Eastern wars and other pressing issues to postpone enacting immigration legislation. 

More than 50 Anti-Amnesty tea party rallies were held across the nation this weekend. The events were put together by Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), but NumbersUSA played a role in the events held in Alexandria, Va. and Pasadena, Calif.

High unemployment rates, overpopulation, and declining public services motivated grassroots activists to attend one of the many tea parties.