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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Mexico sends U.S. diplomatic note criticizing plan for border fence
The Associated Press reports that Mexico sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government saying a plan to build hundreds of miles (kilometers) of fencing on the border to block…
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MALDEF on the New Border Fence Bill
The views of the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund on the Secure Fence Act -- A "Brazen Attempt to Secure Re-election ": This weekend, the U.S. Congress went…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Fence
After months of agonizing debate over the need for meaningful immigration reform, we are getting ..... a border fence. wow. Read all about it in the NYTimes and the Washington…
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DHS Begins Deployment of e-Passport Readers Biometric security features advance border security and further reduce fraudulent document use
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) completed deployment of e-Passport readers at San Francisco International Airport. Installation of the new readers is the first in a series of deployments…
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Listen to Pat Buchanan
Listen to the Minuteman Project radio show by clicking here. The special guest this week is Pat Buchanan, who is promoting his new anti-immigrant book.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Reform Proposals
News from the Hill: Last week, House Republican leaders announced their Border Security Now Agenda, “ten border security priorities” that the House will pass before going out to campaign. These…
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More Death on the Border: A U.S. General Accountability Office Report
For a GAO report entitled "llegal Immigration: Border-Crossing Deaths Have Doubled Since 1995; Border Patrol's Efforts to Prevent Deaths Have Not Been Fully Evaluated" (Aug. 2006), click here.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
$44 Billion on Border Enforcement
The federal government will spend $44 billion on immigration enforcement this year and next, including the creation of a mammoth new "virtual fence" along the Southwest border, the chairman of…
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Canada to Arm its Border
CNN Is reporting that Canada will arm its border guards starting in 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. Canada has unarmed guards along its 4,000-mile (6,435-kilometer) border with the…
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When commerce and security collide
New requirements set to go into effect on January 8, 2007, would require U.S. travelers returning from Canada, Mexico, Panama and the Caribbean islands to present passports to return to…