Topic
Border Enforcement
291 published works
ImmigrationProf Blog
What the Heck? U.S. Arresting Undocumented LEAVING the Country
The L.A. Times reports that U.S. border authorities no longer apprehend undocumented immigrants only as they enter the country. Now they're catching them on the way out. At various times…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Death on the High Seas
Death on the border -- part and parcel of increased U.S. border enforcement -- is so common that I rarely report it anymore. It is worth remembering that migrants also…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Delays Affect Everyone
Julia Preston reports in the NY Times:United States border agents have stepped up scrutiny of Americans returning home from Mexico, slowing commerce and creating delays at border crossings not seen…
ImmigrationProf Blog
ACLU Criticizes Border Raids
LAS CRUCES, NM—The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico condemned recent immigration raids by Otero and Doña Ana County Sheriff's deputies in the border towns of Chaparral and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Giuliani Advisor Quits After Advertising Minuteman “Stop the Illegal Invasion” Rally
AP reports that Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's southwest political director left a top position at the Nevada Republican Party last year after breaking rules by advertising a Minuteman border…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Death on the Border: The Summer of 2007
This may sound like a broken reord (or CD or IPOD) but the deaths along the U.S./Mexico border continue to accumulate -- and they are a direct result of U.S.…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Futility of Border Enforcement
Increased border enforcement long has been criticized has resulting in negative collateral consequences, including deaths. Now, Mexico is calling on the United States to alter a plan to expand border…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Don’t Forget Esequiel Hernández, Jr.: Just Another Innocent Casualty of Increased Border Enforcement
Man Down At Polvo Crossing by Daniel M. Kowalski, Esq.Ten years ago on the Texas - Mexico border, at Polvo Crossing, near Redford, four heavily-armed, camouflaged U.S. Marines stalked and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Chertoff to Step Up Enforcement
The Christian Science Monitor has a view on a Michael Chertoff's goal of stepping up enforcement in view of what occurred in the Senate last week:Both gloat and glum hang…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Death Trap Compromise
The immigration deal reached between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators on Thursday that goes to the floor of the Senate this week will exacerbate an immoral…