Elvira Arellano, who was deported from the U.S., last year, speaks to an amateur cameraman. It's in Spanish, but the gist of it is that she is working at the Tijuana border in efforts against the border wall and for immigrant families who have been separated by deportation.

Today's editorial selection is once again by syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Jr. This time he writes about the self-deportation pilot program the ICE has set up; in his column this week, he writes that few people are taking advantage of the opportunity to self-deport.

Navarrette writes that because regular deportation is so rare, there is no real incentive to self-deport.  An excerpt—

Do-nothingism is a reputation the agency has worked hard to build. Just ask any local or state police officer who, having run across an illegal immigrant and done his duty by calling ICE to pick him up, waited and waited only to eventually realize that no one was coming. Or ask any of those who were picked up in the recent series of immigration raids -- deservedly so, I might add -- but who had to watch those who had employed them, and in some cases allegedly abused them, get off without so much as a warning.

Clearly, ICE is suffering a meltdown. It is the result of an overhaul that the Immigration and Naturalization Service got after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and now it desperately needs an overhaul of its own. (...)

The next president needs to make it clear that he's serious about immigration enforcement by finding a serious person to head what needs to once again be thought of as a serious agency. But who would want the job now? Say, why not take a page from the agency's playbook and ask for volunteers?

Title: "Amigo McCain"
By Antonio Neri Licón, Milenio, Mexico.

A study by the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration group, has found that immigration to the United States increases global greenhouse gas emissions.

The press release shared these bullet points (click on the link for more):

• The estimated CO2 emissions of the average immigrant (legal or illegal) in the United States are 18 percent less than those of the average native-born American.
• However, immigrants in the United States produce an estimated four times more CO2 in the United States as they would have in their countries of origin.
• U.S. immigrants produce an estimated 637 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually -- equal to Great Britain and Sweden combined.
• The estimated 637 million tons of CO2 U.S. immigrants produce annually is 482 million tons more than they would have produced had they remained in their home countries.
• If the 482-million-ton increase in global CO2 emissions caused by immigration to the United States were a separate country, it would rank 10th in the world in emissions.
• The impact of immigration to the United States on global emissions is equal to approximately 5 percent of the increase in annual world-wide CO2 emissions since 1980.
• Of the CO2 emissions caused by immigrants, 83 percent are estimated to come from legal immigrants and 17 percent from illegal immigrants.
• Legal immigrants have a much larger impact because they are more numerous than illegal immigrants and because they have higher incomes, and thus higher emissions.

Los gobernadores de 10 estados de EU y México acordaron poner como prioridad en su agenda el tráfico humano, lo cual algunos han calificado como la esclavitud moderna, y que va más allá de la explotación sexual e incluye trabajo en la minería y la agricultura, reportó La Opinión. "Tan sólo entre la frontera de Estados Unidos y México, el Departamento de Estado calcula que cada año entre 600 mil y 820 mil personas pasan de uno a otro lado como víctimas del tráfico humano. De ellas, alrededor de 20 mil niños son explotados sexualmente en México", dijo el diario.

El tráfico de armas y drogas también fue tema de discusión entre los gobernadores. El gobernador de Nuevo León, José Natividad González Parás, recalcó que la prioridad de México es el combate a la violencia. "Para México, la más grande inquietud en este momento, como nunca la ha tenido en la historia, es el crimen organizado, que se origina por el narcotráfico y el narcomenudeo y se ha extendido a otras áreas delictivas", informó el Houston Chronicle en español.

La inmigrante mexicana deportada de EEUU habla de su Casa de Refugio desde Tijuana, Baja California.