"Several members of the Council of the Americas Trade Advisory Group are pressing for 'swift approval' of all three pending free trade agreements and a way forward on a worker-aid program that is tying up passage," writes The Hill of a COA op-ed published in the The Washington Post.

"Every day we delay, U.S. market share in [Colombia, Panama, and South Korea] is being eroded by others who are able to trade under more favorable terms," writes COA's Eric Farnsworth in Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Both the administration and congressional Republicans must end the partisan wrangling over the Trade Adjustment Assistance program to pass pending U.S. trade pacts, write members of COA's Trade Advisory Group in The Washington Post.

The courts alone won’t beat new, regressive legislation in these two states. Without a broader response such copycat of Arizona’s SB 1070 will continue to spread.

The Obama administration announced it would require arms dealers in Southwest border states to report on multiple sales of certain assault rifles. The move, designed to help slow arms trafficking to Mexico, will likely face legal challenges.

After approving NAFTA in 1994, the United States continued to restrict Mexican truckers’ ability to cross the border. A bilateral agreement signed July 6 seeks to put the dispute to rest.

As U.S. states tussle with the federal government over who has the authority to enforce immigration law, Latin American governments’ protests grow louder.