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Border Enforcement
291 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
Back to the Future? Southwest Border Czar to Make a Comeback in the Obama Administration?
The L.A. Times reports for ominous news for those interested in improvement in U.S./Mexico border enforcement policies in the Obama Administration:"A former U.S. attorney who oversaw a crackdown on illegal…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Borderline Cops
On the Daily Show, Aasif Mandvi takes a hilarious look at border enforcement, the claims that "illegals" are taking jobs from Americans, the Minuteman, the use of alligators to enforce the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Story Funny Only to Immigration Afficionados
The BBC reports that a Mexican migrant was stopped as he entered the UK when a search of his luggage uncovered a good luck card for his "new life in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Finessing the Immigrant Crackdown
Tom Barry on Border Lines has a less-than-charitable analysis of DHS Secretary's Janet Napolitano's early immigration moves -- and tells us that we should expect more of the same. "With…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ICE 2008 Statistics
The Department of Homeland Security on Thrusday released a fact sheet of “End of Year Accomplisments.” It includes:— Customs and Border Protection (CBP) increased the size of its work force…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Interviewing Minutemen President
While blogging for Colorlines Magazine and Racewire.org at the Democratic Convention in Denver, Julianne Hing had a chance to interview Chris Simcox, the president of the Minutemen:I imagined the folks…
ImmigrationProf Blog
This is Un-American! Border Controls Might Delay Football Fans
U.S. Customs and Border Protection warned football fans "to prepare for a potential increase in cross border travel in conjunction with the Buffalo Bills pre-season football game against the Detroit…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Citizens Beware! Big Brother is Watching (Where You Travel)
"The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Thinking – Laura Agustín
Border Thinking - Laura Agustín - http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=320Last month, I flew into Stansted Airport, in the southeast of England,where the disembarking traveller is met by an enormous black structurelooming high above…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Arizona’s Sheriff Accused of Racial Profiling
It's been pretty evident that the Maricopa County Sheriff has been focusing his well-publicized efforts on folks of Latino-appearance. Howard Witt writes in the Chicago Tribune:The newest tactic in America's…