21.   Kidnapper, supposedly a Mexican national, said something about a passport as he met Flores in the parking lot Wednesday morning.

22.   Many of these sites are run by Mexican nationals with ties to nationwide rings.

23.   Mexican nationals typically juggle their deposits in American banks during Easter visits, at the end of each year and just before a presidential election.

24.   Mexican officials, partly because of intense public pressure, have stepped up efforts to assist Mexican nationals on death row or awaiting trial on capital murder charges.

25.   Of marijuana, the DEA laid much of the blame on Mexican nationals operating from Arizona and San Diego.

26.   On Thursday, President Vicente Fox of Mexico met with family members of missing Mexican nationals as he made a brief visit to New York City.

27.   Pollock, who examined Maturino Resendiz for three days in October, said the Mexican national was schizophrenic, but tests did not prove he was a psychopath.

28.   Police say the Collings case is just one of many involving Mexican nationals who have found sanctuary across the border.

29.   Robin Waugh, a spokeswoman for the Drug Enforcement Administration office in New York, said that Gonzales identified himself as a Mexican national.

30.   She said there has been an unprecedented number of assassinations of prosecutors, no extraditions of Mexican nationals on drug-related charges and more bribery of Mexican officials.