NEW ORLEANS WORKERS DENOUNCE PERSECUTION - According to instructions from President Obama, immigration authorities should use discretion in the cases of immigrants in the process of deportation, in order to protect those without criminal records or those who have presented civil rights complaints. But dozens of day laborer organizers in Louisiana report they were unfairly targetted by immigration authorities, who are now attempting to deport them, because they were protesting workplace abuse. Our correspondent in the South, Camilo García, has more details.

THOUSANDS ASK FOR ANSWERS IN MIGRANT'S DEATH - The case of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, the migrant who was killed in San Diego, won national notoriety when a video broadcast on public television showed a group of border patrol agents beating him, kicking him, and giving him electric shocks. This week, his mother, Luz Rojas, traveled to Washington on Latin American Mother's Day, to turn more than 30,000 signatures over to the federal Department of Justice, asking for an investigation into her son's death. On the national talkshow Linea Abierta, we spoke with John Carlos Frey, the journalist who helped get the videos of Anastasio's death to the national media. Here are some fragments of the conversation.

To hear the full show on the death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, that also includes an interview with his brother, go to our archives at archivosderb.org.

MEXICAN YOUTH STAYING HOME - Mexican immigration to the United States has slowed so much that fewer Mexican nationals now enter the country than leave it, according to a recent report from the Pew Hispanic Center. One of the regions where this change can be felt is in the Mixteca Poblana region in central Mexico. Catalina Jaramillo recently visited the town of Piaxtla, in the Mixteca region, where she found that local youth now think twice before going North.