This Americas Society white paper provides the first comparative look at the average economic effects of how restrictive versus non-restrictive immigration-related city ordinances affect a business environment. Using statistical analysis, the report demonstrates that non-restrictive city ordinances are better for an overall jobs environment.

While speaking about the likelihood of Mexican cartel involvement in the claimed plot against the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini said the sum allegedly offered to the cartel was "chump change compared to the money they're making from moving coke."

The U.S. House and Senate passage of bilateral free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama on October 12 clears the way for long-delayed implementation.

With Hispanic Heritage Month underway, Mayor Castro discusses the country’s growing Latino population and immigration reform.

Immigration activists organized a national action day on August 16 to demand an end to Secure Communities, the immigration enforcement program that the Obama administration plans to deploy nationwide by 2013.

COA's Eric Farnsworth says that, besides the U.S.-Mexican trucking agreement reached in July 2011, the White House has done "little in terms of direct promotion of economic development in Mexico," with a sharp increase of federal funding directed to law enforcement on the border only helping indirectly.

With no replacement named, Arturo Valenzuela leaves his post as assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere to return to Georgetown University.