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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Border Report #13 (Final)
When the border delegation tour began last Friday in San Diego that would go on to Nogales and El Paso, I certainly expected to see the psychological as well as…
ImmigrationProf Blog
GAO Report on Border Security
The U.S. General Accountability Office has a report on border security. Seehttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06295.pdfKJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Border Report #11
The border tour ended with a meeting on Tuesday morning with a meeting with the deputy chief of the local Border Patrol in the El Paso sector. He reiterated that…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Border Report #10
In Nogales, the border delegation also met with local officials. This included a member of the board of supervisors, Manny Ruiz; city councilman Ignacio Barraza, and Sheriff Tony Estrada. Supervisor…
ImmigrationProf Blog
What? State Efforts to Tax Remittances
February 19, 2006Immigration News: Legislators Go After Remittance MoniesTargeting the $20 billion-plus dollars in remittances that flow from the United States to Mexico, state legislators in Arizona and Texas are…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Border Report #2
Nearly 10 million people live in the US-Mexico border area. About 23 percent of the population on the US side lives at or below the poverty line, compared with a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Politics from the Border
FROM BlueLatinos.orgU.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar -- a so-called Democrat from Laredo, Texas -- wants to give $100 million dollars to the Minutemen, the racist, gun-toting vigilante group. Last October, Representative…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New GAO Report
Homeland Security: Recommendations to Improve Management of Key Border Security Program Need to Be Implemented. GAO-06-296, February 14, 2006http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-296http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06296.pdfHighlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d06296high.pdfKJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Plan Swells Bush Budget
The Bush administration wants billions ofdollars for 1,500 more Border Patrol agents, 6,700 new beds in immigrationdetention facilities, increased prosecution of employers of undocumentedworkers and other border security measures.The proposal…
ImmigrationProf Blog
CRS Report On Mexico-US Border Issues
The Congressional Research Service issued a report on the interactions between Mexico and the US on migration and border issues during the administrations of President George W. Bush and President…