Mexican citizens can now use their Mexican ID cards, also known as matriculas, at Chandler city offices.

Jose de la Isla

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - Hungry and dehydrated victims of one of the worst floods in Mexico's history scrambled for government packages of food and medicine, while at least 20,000 people remained trapped Monday on the rooftops of homes swallowed by water.

Mexican identification cards will be the subject of a probable meeting between the Gilbert Town Council and the Gilbert Human Relations Commission.

Bill Richardson: The threat presented by the Mexican Mafia to Arizona is real and will only continue to grow like it has for more than 30 years if serious measures aren’t taken by law enforcement and policymakers.

ATLANTA -- Mexican consulates around the country plan to launch an effort next week to educate their citizens on their labor rights when working in the United States.

MEXICO CITY - A helicopter carrying the Cabinet minister in charge of Mexico's federal police, his deputy and seven others crashed in cloud-shrouded mountains outside Mexico City on Wednesday, killing everyone on board, President Vicente Fox said.

July 22, 2004

Mexican consulate officials are not just sitting around the office waiting to help people — they have been traveling around the state bringing services to those who need them.

CANCUN, Mexico - Hurricane Wilma tore into Mexico's resort-studded Mayan Riviera on Friday with torrential rains and shrieking winds, filling the streets with water, shattered glass and debris as thousands of stranded tourists hunkered down in hotel ballrooms and emergency shelters.

SAN DIEGO  — The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed with people ordered to leave the United States.

Mesa and Tempe city councils will vote today on whether to recognize a photo ID card issued to Mexican nationals — even though the state Legislature is looking at a bill that would ban the cards.

It’s obvious that the public relations portion of SB 1070 has gotten away from Arizona. Though Arizona feels justified in its new immigration law, the response from the rest of the nation has been hostile at best.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio pitched his tents to the Mexican government Thursday. About one of every eight inmates in the county detention system are citizens of Mexico, prompting a diplomat from that country to accept Arpaio’s offer to tour the infamous Tent City Jail.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio pitched his tents to the Mexican government Thursday. About one of every eight inmates in the county detention system are citizens of Mexico, prompting a diplomat from that country to accept Arpaio’s offer to tour the infamous Tent City Jail.

MEXICO CITY - Tens of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched across the country Saturday to demand authorities act to stop a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts.

WASHINGTON -- A contentious program allowing Mexican trucks unrestricted access to U.S. highways near the border with Mexico has been extended for two years, despite numerous attempts by Congress to quash it.

Mike McClellan’s headline should be that “Mexican cartels are well armed due to failure to enforce existing laws in Mexico. (Or, Mexican cartels are lawless criminals). Because if they already have laws prohibiting purchase and possession of weapons larger than .32 handguns, then it’s just proving once again that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Visit Chicago or D.C. sometime if you doubt that, Mike.

MEXICO CITY - Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, died Thursday, three days before elections to replace her son, the president's office said. She was 86.

WASHINGTON - The Teamsters Union said Wednesday it will ask a federal appeals court to block the Bush administration’s plan to allow Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States.

The Gilbert Town Council is being asked for the second time by a town advisory panel to officially recognize Mexican identification cards.

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's presidential election was too close to call Sunday with voters bitterly divided between a leftist offering himself as a savior to the poor and a conservative warning his rival's free-spending proposals threaten the economy.

WASHINGTON - The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and in a sample from a batch of serrano peppers at a Mexican farm, federal health officials said Wednesday.

A Gilbert panel is asking the town to join other East Valley communities in endorsing Mexican ID cards, even though holders wouldn't have additional access to town services.