By enacting an executive order to suspend the deportation of at least 800,000 young people – mostly brought illegally into the United States as children – President Barack Obama has endeared himself to hundreds of thousands of Latino voters who could be crucial to his reelection in key states such as Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado.

An increasing number of political sources confirm that it would now take a miracle for the National Action Party (PAN) to recover lost ground and triumph in the Jalisco gubernatorial race and the Guadalajara metro-area mayorships.

At a press conference this week in Mexico, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano repeated President Barack Obama’s commitment to “comprehensive” immigration reform.

The debate on whether religion should enter public discourse as a voice on certain moral issues rages on both sides of the border.