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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Fence Can Take Small Border Town Land
Suzanne Gamboa reports for the Associated Press:A federal judge has ordered a small border city in Texas to temporarily turn over its land to the federal government so it can…
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NASCAR and the Border Patrol
The Dallas Morning News reports that the federal government is aggressively recruiting new Border Patrol officers through some novel means, including sponsoring a NASCAR race car, billboards hundreds of miles…
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Top Ten Immigration Stories of 2007
Here are the top 10 immigration stories of 2007. It has been a very "interesting" year and limiting this list to 10 was very difficult:1. The Failure of "Comprehensive" Immigration…
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About Face on Immigration by Chris Simcox?
Five years ago, Chris Simcox began his rise from an obscure newspaper publisher in Tombstone, Arizona -- yes, there really is a town called Tombstone -- to a national figure…
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DHS Accepts First Installment of Electronic Border Fence
GovernmentExcutive.com reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Department has conditionally accepted delivery of the first phase of a controversial electronic border fence from contractor Boeing Co., and awarded…
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Showdown in Arizona
In "Showdown in Arizona, Where Mariachis and Minutemen Collide," LAWRENCE DOWNES writes thoughtfully about the conflict between Mexican day laboreres and the local community in Arizona. Downes also narrates a…
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El Paso Border Conference: El Paso Police Chief
At the Border Policy conference that I am attending in El Paso, Richard Wiles, Chief of the El Paso Police Department had this response to a question about the notion…
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Environmental Impact Statement on Border Fence Extension
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to identify and assess the potential impacts…
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Another Migrant Death from the San Diego Fire
This morning, we posted a story about our Immigrant of the Day and how he had discovered a migrant who died as a result of a wild fire in the…
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Guiliani Campaign Lands Law Prof Jan Ting (Temple) for Immigration Expertise
Last year, Temple University law professor Jan Ting was on the campaign trail, calling for tighter borders in an unsuccessful bid to unseat U.S. Senator Tom Carper. Today, Ting is…