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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Bill Frist Running for President?
A Senate panel's overhaul of immigration and border-security laws has hit a speed bump on its way to the Senate chamber. Rather than bringing up the committee's bill, Majority Leader…
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Marc Cooper on Immigration in the Nation
From The Nation, Apr. 3, 2006, Showdown on Immigration, by MARC COOPERPhoenix Local Republican Representative J.D. Hayworth--author of a new book calling for a border shutdown enforced by the military…
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Minutemen Headed Back to Arizona
The controversial civilian Minuteman border patrol group isplanning a return to Arizona in two weeks to again confront the problem ofillegal immigration.Some say the original Minuteman Project conducted in April…
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Mexican Ads on Immigration Reform
Mexico published advertisements in major newspapers inMexico and in the United States on Monday saying migrants should have the samerights as everyone else and calling it "indispensable" that the twocountries…
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Border Football
From the Believe It or Not DepartmentWith migrants dying along the U.S. border with Mexico, and immigration refom percolating in Congress, one might guess that state and local politicians in…
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Summary of Frist Bill
As threatened, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist introduced his own immigration legislation. Here's a quick summary prepared by the National Immigration Forum, with some comparison with Senate Judiciary chair Specter's…
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New Immigration Film
SynopsisA U.S. Homeland Security official watches a video of Laura, a Mexican woman whose husband died in 2003 along with 18 others in the worst immigrant smuggling case in U.S.…
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A Comment on the Lack of Workplace Enforcement
New York Times March 5, 2006 The Search for Illegal Immigrants Stops at the Workplace By EDUARDO PORTER IT may seem that the United States government has declared all-out war…
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Migrant and Border Communities Lobby DC This Week
Press ReleaseFor Release on March 5, 2006 MIGRANT AND BORDER COMMUNITIES BRING IMMIGRATION REFORM SOLUTIONS TO U.S. SENATE Human Rights Organizations From throughout the Nation Converge in DC March 6th…
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“Mexican Military” Incident
A federal investigation does not indicate that a highly publicized border showdown in a Texas county involved Mexican military, according to federal officials.At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Border…