Illegal immigration has been incessantly discussed during the US Republican race. However, hardly any of the discourse has focused on the fact that it’s not that big a problem, writes Edward Alden

A powerful earthquake shook fishing villages along Mexico’s Gulf of California today.

Sobbing relatives waited outside a mortuary to claim the bodies from a day-care fire that killed 38 children in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building’s only working exit.

A fast-moving fire killed 31 children in a day care centre in northern Mexico, despite desperate attempts of firefighters who punched through the walls and fought their way through flames to rescue babies, toddlers and others trapped inside.

Flames engulfed a day care centre in the northern Mexican city of Hermosillo, killing at least 29 children and sending dozens more the hospital.

BILL MELENDEZ, the animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters, has died aged 91.

THE US diocese where paedophile priest Oliver O’Grady molested a number of children has been rocked by yet another scandal as another Irish priest has been accused of the same offence.

Police killed 15 gunmen in a fierce battle just south of the Arizona border after tracking assailants believed to have abducted and killed five Mexican policemen into the nearby hills with a helicopter.

Mexico decided to release a Lebanese-born British citizen after his arrest for alleged ties to terrorists, saying he had done nothing wrong.

Six inmates were killed and 10 others were injured after authorities called in special agents to put down a riot at a prison along the US-Mexico border yesterday, authorities said.