A leftist lawmaker urged the Mexican government to declare President Clinton persona non grata - just weeks before Clinton's scheduled visit here.
And in a rare show of nonpartisanship, all four parties in Mexico's Congress roundly condemned a tough new U.S. immigration law that they fear will push hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants out of the United States with neither dignity nor due process.
Facing a firestorm of furor and fear, nearly a dozen senior Mexican officials, led by Foreign Secretary Jose Angel Gurria, spent hours yesterday trying to convince a skeptical nation that the new law will not trigger a wave of deportations and flood Mexico with newly unemployed compatriots - nor rob it of the more than $4 billion that Mexican migrants send home from the United States each year.
Mohammed al-Nazari was sentenced to death Monday for killing a headmistress, a teacher, a cafeteria worker, a bystander and a student.
Another student died Tuesday of wounds suffered during the weekend attack, and the appeals court added his name to the charge sheet retroactively.
The lower court rejected reports that al-Nazari acted after one of his daughters was raped and that the slain headmistress and her husband had a role in the assault.