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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
A View From the Border (Day 3): “These are the same folks you seen down at the Home Depot every day”
Here is the latest in a series of blog entries this week from UC Davis law students visiting the U.S./Mexican border in southern Arizona. Yesterday, they rode with a Border…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrant Rights Advocates in DC
MEDIA ADVISORY & COMMUNITY UPDATEMarch 9, 2007Contacts:· Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, agarcia@nnirr.org, (510) 928-0685 cell (English / Spanish)· Diana Pei Wu, National Network…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S./Mexico Border Depicted as War Zone in Video Game
Pedro Malavet (Florida) posted an interesting question about a new video game:Ok, this is probably because I am still jet lagged, from 10 hours on the airplane, but has anyone…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrants to DC Next Week
Immigrant Communities Come to WashingtonMarch 13-15, 2007Washington DCA Fair and Comprehensive Immigration Reform Now!As US Congress gears up to initiate the discussion on immigration reform, the Border Community Alliance for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Business Week on Immigration Reform
Business Week (Feb. 27) (click here) has an interesting article on "Fresh Ideas for the Immigration Debate" by Peter Elstrom. A number of immigration experts weigh in on immigration reform.Here…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Request for hearings on the border agent case
Main March 1, 2007Request for hearings on the border agent caseAccording to this (partisan?) news report, "[t]hirty-eight Republican congressmen have written to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asking for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Minuteman Mess
On Feb. 27, the LA Times, in an article by Jennifer Delson (here), reported on a controversy over the leadereship of the Minutemen. The story begins:A behind-the-scenes power struggle over…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Anniversary of Border Shooting
Border Network Statement on the Fourth Anniversary of the Killing of Juan Patricio PerazaFebruary 22, 2007Four years ago, in a cold morning on this same day, a Border Patrol agent…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Border Measures Having an Impact? Let’s Wait and See
The N.Y. Times (here) reports that the heightened border enforcement efforts over the last few months have deterred migration from Mexico. According to the Times, all along the border, there…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Bush’s statements on immigration
This morning, President Bush gave a press conference, in which he addressed a variety of issues from Iraq to Scooter Libby. Here are his statements on immigration:Secondly, an interesting opportunity…