mexicans did. in fact, they brought thousands of troops headed by a history professor from the university of mexico. we don't get that recognition. in fact, not only did he come with troops, but he came with 44 vessels that blockaded the southern parts, you know, the katrina parts, biloxi, new orleans and so forth. he blocked that area so the british could not come invade from the south. gave washington a chance towards recuperating at valley forge. every -- there is no american cemetery throughout the world whether it be normandy, iraq, there is no american military cemetery where there's not a mexican buried in it, including gettysburg. give me a hand for that. [applause] >> there was somebody there waiting on this side here. sir? next question here on the right-hand side. >> the question is for sal castro. sal, i'm a chicano from redondo beach. remember that? you were very involved with camp kramer in malibu. i was wondering if you could give us an update on what's happening with that effort and

innocents, mexican people and mexican authorities, but nobody can say will never happen that those weapons against american citizens. >> charlie: look at the demand side of drugs. your pred seder, vicente -- your predecessor, vicente fox said if the united states legalized drugs, i think he principally met marijuana it would dry up revenues and the cartels would be severely hurt. you don't agree can legalization. >> let me tell you, i don't agree, but i am open to debate. that is clear for me. why? because there are economic arguments in both sides of the discussion. i understand that as the economic theory used to say, when you have a black market like in the case of drugs, you have some kind of overprice, and with that it is possible to fuel the activity of the criminals -- the more violent criminals. however, at least what we need today is a clear definition, because you have some kind -- you can see some kind of ambiguity between -- in some states you are legalizing, the states, at least 14 or 15 states are legalizing marijuana. there is a change in the culture -- only, charlie, only t

no more mexicans. who did not have a problem being objective with a mexican. [inaudible]. i should try to do something about this he thought this is not good. may be i should try, may be i should make an effort. may be i should drive to the mission and spend quality time with my own people. i'm sure it would be simple. he doesn't have to be so hard. i am sure anyone who looks at me and talks to me will believe i'm another south of the border specimen and never figure out i happen to be a self hating mexican. the self hating something made him think of the self hating jew. he thought of george constanza and woody allen. he thought of philip and alexander's father yelling and screaming telling his son he was the son of the family shames. you don't be deserved to be called a view. you, alexander are being embarrassed by the surface of the mirror. you don't deserve to be a mexican. nor the fact that mexicans are the hardest working people and came here to work and give their children a better future. there is no mexican who tried to justify with arguments like a fantasy to cel

and a mexican-american. i went to college, and when i was at berkeley, i remember meeting a girl who told me she was from mexico city. we're sitting there talking, and, you know, somewhere on the south side of berkeley, and i told her, oh, you know, that's cool, you're from there? my parents are mexican, you know, they're from tijuana. and this girl told me, oh, you're not mexican. [laughter] she's like, you're not mexican. that's not mexico. [laughter] really? really? because i always thought that, i always thought i was mexican. [laughter] that's who i thought i was. i mean, that's how i was perceived to the world, and that's how i was perceived in san diego, you know? we would sometimes go when we were little to my mom always liked talking us to the nice beach in san diego, not the mexican beach. she thought, you know, we can go to coronado. so we'd go there, and i remember every now and then we would face, we would get slurs and be discriminated against there, yet we always would go to that beach, and th

the tohono reservation sits on the mexican border near tucson, arizona. it's the size of connecticut but is sparsely populated. for most of the remote 75-mile long border there, this fence is all that separates mexico from the united states. >> typically, a smuggler, a smuggling group will move dope through this desert in either a vehicle or in a human smuggling train. >> reporter: authorities say mexican traffickers increasingly use tohono oodham land now to enter the u.s., forced to do so by law enforcement crack downs elsewhere. agents say on most of the mountaintops in the area, within the united states, from the border to phoenix, mexico's drug cartel hides its surveillance team in caves to spy on american law enforcement below. >> we estimate at any given time, there are 200 to 300 scouts working in these positions. >> reporter: and this is one of those mountaintop caves called spider holes where the mexican scouts will hunker down day and night. this one is so fresh, they left behind shoes and sleeping gear. in smaller caves, the scouts store water

the battle of puebla may 5, 1862. >> before 5,000 mexicans fighting and 7 or 8,000 french. so they were outnumbered and they were out gunned. >> french army highly trained march from vera cruz to puebla bent on wiping down military inferior mexican army, but something happened that day. the mexicans fought with such valor they turned the french away and for ever changed their country. >> lasted only a few hours and the french actually retreated from that battle. and it was a very important and symbolic retreat because that's when the sovereignty of the mexican nation and the unity of the mexican people were affirmed in the battle of puebla. >> teresa, chair of studies at san francisco state university says cinco de mayo is celebrated widely in the u.s. because the truth is, the victory was led by a texasan. >> the military leader of the battle was born in texas. >> him and his fighters turned the french back, but that victory would be short lived. napoleon ordered 30,000 troops into mexico and occupied the country for the next three country for the next three years.,,,,,,,,

bent on wiping out a mexican army. but something happened that day. mexicans fought with such valor they turned the french away and forever changed their country. >> lasted only a few hours and the french actually retreated from that battle and it was a very important and symbolic retreat because that's when the sovereignty of the mexican nation and the unity of the mexican people were affirmed in the battle. >> theresa carare says cinco de mayo is celebrated widely in the u.s. because truthfully the victory was led by a texan. >> the man that led the battle was born in texas. >> he and the fighters turned the french back but that victory would be short lived. napolean ordered 30,000 additional troops into mexico and occupied the country for the next three years. go to cbssf.com. click on "connect" to send me your good questions. [ female announcer ] what's so great about jcp cash? no exclusions! with jcp cash, earn 10, 15 or 20 dollars off on the spot... ...storewide! and, unlike other stores,... ...we don't make you come back to save. get up to $20

we keep the mexican easy here.e're going to add one tortilla and assemble it like a panini and put it down in theum -- the yummy cheese. and i need to have one of these quesadillas right now, it's making my mouth water. and then we add the skirt steak and like a panini you top it off with a second tortilla and let it cook, get nice and gooey and melted. for the recipe go to food network.com and you'll get it in full detail. and see this beautiful golden color, you slice it up and there you have the beautiful skirt steak quesadilla and the salsa is easy to make at home and i always have great recipes for that as well. >> is there a secret, the one thing to get the taste so much when we eat mexican food? >> well i think the taste that you're talking about maybe is a little bit of spice and, yes, absolutely. there is an array of chilis in mexican cooking and on whether you like a lot of spice or not, you have such a variety of chiles to choose from and that makes it special. if you want something nice and flavorful go

police or mexican military you can run the risk of being executed while you're incarcerated you can run the risk of. any other kinds of form of weird punishment if you go to the drug court you're much more likely to maybe get a slap on the wrist to have to go to detox neither of one of these are a real response to the problem which is that mexico is still both manufacturing and acting as a sort of superhighway for drugs in the united states so there are going to be bigger bigger policy responses to this. well let's talk about some of the policy responses. in regards to what america can do right you could say that our consumption is exactly what fuels these cartels and when it comes to the drugs when it comes to the black market that's created but is it really that simple a fix if we did let's say legalize marijuana what it all go away. that's hard to say i mean people made that argument in the lead up to for example prop nineteen in california which is a push to legalize marijuana but the you know the federal government responded that . marijuana is the majority of what they move th

/mexican border. the painting encourages the viewer to engage with the current debates over immigration and the politics of women and labor. influenced by the campaigns of the chicano civil rights movement, this oakland artist is a print maker whose work has helped and sustainability with the immigrant community as well as other current sociopolitical issues. this print-based work draws on appropriated agricultural worker manuals and high fashion labels to satirically address class issues, cultural identities, and consumerism. >> angelica -- her father was an agricultural worker, so she has drawn a lot from the materials the agricultural department sends to agricultural workers, referencing the depiction of farm workers and some of the information about pesticide application. >> mitzi combines a variety of media, including embroidery, to create artifacts of mexican, chicano, pop culture. she greets immensely detailed drawings of celebrities on the same platform of her friends and families. her work co

the mexican government quit investigating the hartley murder when the lone mexican investigator was beheaded basically doing nothing. our federal government is being quiet. tiffany hartley and i are concerned that she gets no information from the federal government on what they are doing to solve this murder. meanwhile, sheriff gonzales has the lone responsibility to figure this out. >> he can try to figure it all he wants but this killing, and if it was a killing -- and the reason i say if it was -- weapon don't have a body yet, it happened outside of the sheriff's jurisdiction. it seems that the u.s. department of justice, given the authority of the zapata county sheriff is meaningless. >> you are exactly correct. the sheriff can't go into mexico. all he can do is work from the mexican side where tiffany hartley escaped from the cartel. so we need -- the federal government, that's their job to work with the mexican government to solve the hartley murder. right now it seems to be very quiet on what is taking place between the two governments to solve david hartley's murder. >> congressman,

hundreds of thousands of mexicans have been affected by these laws. mexicans, and others are affected. they are from latin america. representation is so key. that doesn't invalidate any of your stories. on the contrary, it makes us unified. whether it was logistics, or whether no mexican was available or whatever, but they are not here. so i really -- but again, i do appreciate your work. i think it is time for you go the next step. i appreciate the panel issue. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good evening honorable chair person and members of the board. my name is carl cruz, i am with the american immigration lawyers and the national lawyers guild. i want to shed some light and go further than due process deprivation and explain what it is we are looking at in terms of the proposals we saw in 2007 and 2008. evans involved in some minor lobbying efforts. we need to take all this in keeping with what the office could be. on the one hand, we might get comprehensive immigration reform. on the other hand, we might get

. >> what started out as a holiday recognizing the mexican army's victory over the french has turned into a celebration of mexican heritage and pride. >> we meet different types of people here. >> cinco de mayo is bigger here than in mexico. >> i'm happy they celebrate it, because can i make true cash here. >> she's been standing on this corner since last week, selling mexican flags and so many prayer rows. we saw a lot of flags on cars, cruising up and down story and king roads. >> this is is the car culture. we put our money, our sweat, blood and tears into these cars. >> reporter: this man has invested more than $14,000 into his chef very capris. because the annual parade was cancelled this year because of the economy, he and his friends are cruising around putting on their own parade. >> we take the cars out here, bring it out here, we let everybody see it, there's people walking down the street. >> what would cinco de mayo be without a little music and dancing? dancing is all about mexican pride. >> it makes me proud, because i'm doing it for fun and my crew. >> you can see they

just yesterday mexican marines battled gunman in a gang camp on a lake bordering texas. one marine and 12 gang members died. for more, we turn to angela kocherga, the mexico bureau chief for belo television. based in el po, texas, she reports from the border region and throughout mexico. angela, thanks for joining us. these protestors yesterday in mexico city, who were they demonstrating against? was it the gangs that are doing the violence or was it the way the government is handling it? >> really both, margaret. they're fed up with the bloodshed that has claimed so many lives. so it was dubbed a peace march. justice for the victims is clearly part of their strategy and their effort. they're not necessarily telling the government d't fight the drug sgangs. don't crack down on the cartels because they know that they need to restore law and order in some of these regions terrorized by the cartels but these people the demonstrators and many in mexico want the government, felipe calderon's administration, the president, to review the current strategy-- a strategy they say h

are distributed throughout the whole city, and i take great pride in the fact that i am the son of mexican immigrants. i have a history of working with the non-english speaking communities. it will be a priority to have the mark with this -- and i am also very sensitive to the needs of seniors. my parents will be turning in their keys very soon, and they are able to walk around and maybe depending on the system more than they do today. this is a major component of our population. i hope that will be making a better future -- for the seniors that we can anticipate. for a child that is 8 years old -- this is safe enough for everyone. i live at the top of the hill,

and mexican border disappears into the pacific ocean. its tough streets are the inspiration for a duo to emerged on the international music scene in the late 1990's with fusion of traditional mexican music and european electronic rock. they explain how they've created a new genre of latin music. ♪ ♪ >> the sound, cars, traffic, here at nortech, we represent this sound with electronic music and the music that came from are the states and we add up this music as music from this city. so we represent this lifestyle with the fusion of these different cultures. ♪ ♪ >> i grew up, so for me, something natural. you look over there, you can see the u.s. you have one neighbor, he has a wall or i have a wall, as well. >> here, tijuana, 1999, it started with pepe and i. at the beginning, he found some sounds and invited me to share that sounds with me and we started to compose the first tracks and then we decide to share this sounds with friends and that's how the collective started. we mix the very old technologies like drum machines from the early

mexican trucks to open in dolores park this weekend. >> my dad drove a cart. so it was a little complicated. >> because some neighborhood opposition it will move from inside the park to curbside. one backed out to operate in the same park because of the backlash. >> we have some developing news this morning, police have found a body near train tracks in oakland. police and fire were called to 37th avenue? san leandro street about an hour ago. amtrak officials say a pedestrian was trespassing on the tracks amp was struck by a train. it was traveling from oakland to san jose. amtrak passengers on that section of the capital corridor route are bees bussed to the hayward station. that is where train service will resume. governor jerry brown will skip a scheduled appearance at the state democratic convention today after undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his nose. he had the procedure on friday after tests revealed a slow growth of cancer. his doctors say all cancer cells were removed but some reconstructive surgery was need order his nose. the gove

we have a lot of mexicans tonight. >> reporter: it certainly has been a tough year though for the sanose police department with a lot of budget cuts and elimination of specialized units but they say they will be out in force tonight. it's a beautiful night here. the weather is certainly very hot tonight. but you know, with the street closures no street closures and the lack of a parade, san jose police said it's a nice night with a lot of drink specials and mexican restaurant special but with the violence toned down. in san jose, juliette goodrich, cbs 5. >> a reminder, triple-a is offering free tows for tipsy drivers. tell the officer you need a tipsy tow. >>> crews have just capped a gas main break first reported about an hour and a half ago on bush street right between stockton and powell in san francisco. the fire department apparently told everybody nearby just stay inside. however, that order has been lifted which is a good thing just after 5:00. pg&e says an independent construction crew hit that pipe. but utility crews will stick around to wrap up that repair job. >>> coming u

-mexican border today, calling for immigration reform. and saying that the border is more secure than ever. but you're going to hear now from someone who has fear in her eyes, and that fear will tell you that on the mexican side of the border, drug violence is creating one of the most dangerous places in the world. tonight, in an abc news exclusive, john quinones talks to someone you met here once before. >> reporter: they called her the bravest woman in mexico. the petite and feisty 20-year-old student who took the job no one else wanted. police chief in a border region terrorized by the drug war. her predecessor was tortured by the drug cartels and then beheaded. today, marisol valles garcia gazes across the border toward mexico, from the safety of the u.s. >> translator: my country is so close, but so far away. >> reporter: she served the town of praxedis, mexico, for just a few months. but then came the death threats? [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: yes. they threatened to kill me, my family, my baby boy. i was always scared, coul

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city into the mexican city. i mean, as you were saying, el paso has been cited oftentimes as being one of the safest cities in the u.s., and there it is right across from the most deadly in the world at the moment. >> suarez: what kinds of spillover effects? the president was in el paso today. what are the kinds of things you see there right next to one of the most dangerous cities in mexico? >> well, it's pretty well documented that the drug cartels have a pretty strong precedent in the... presence in the u.s. now not just in border states but throughout the country. along u.s.-border cities in some you have seen an increase in violence, homicides, for example, that are supposed to be related to drug violence. and you also see the increased infiltration ofgs, for example, such as one which as the mexican drug cartels have seen a very money-making business in smuggling immigrants so they've jumped on that as well. but along with that it become a lot of competition between the car cartels and gangs. they're takin

you look at the cultural issues involved with the mexican and latinos working on farms. there is a cultural issue in this country for the black community to do the work that low-level work won't do because it is slavery. i learned that from people worked with. my question is -- i have a feeling about this because the lot of those they do get some welfare. they have their kids and work hard. they're not legal. their kids getting food stamps, medicaid, that is part of the equation. i think that the law of regulation or whatever you want to call it, bill gates says i can't find people who work for me. he gets them over with a green card. it is lower level folks who come here and we sent back to the border and they are hard working. what would you do. you mentioned utah of a dish to make this happen? >> something we didn't get into the 4, we talked about how illegal emigration policies -- we have seen the number of illegal immigrants increase from four million more than a decade ago to 10 or eleven million. we have seen a drop in the recent recession, recent numbers from q s

so i think most of the weapons that are used are stolen from mexican authorities, mexican police, andand police that have become members of the gangs. those weapons are smuggled out, but not most. host: eric olson, your response. guest: let me be clear. the weapons that have been captured and traced through the e-trace system which is an official system that the a.t.f. has to look where the sales occurred, the vast majority of those are triss -- traced back to the united states and mostly to gun shows, pawn shops, and other gun stores that sell them. i know that is not a popular perspective. i understand that. but one has to guide ones self by the actual evidence, and that is based on information from the a.t.f. now, senator grassley has gup to ask some serious -- begun to ask some serious questions of a.t.f. for their botching of the fast and furious operation. the justice department and attorney general holder has initiated its own independent investigation. we don't know the outcomes yet of those investigations. i think they are very important ones. obviously if a.t.f. violated the

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