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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Sensors Waste Border Patrol Time
U.S. Border Patrol agents are forced to waste time responding to alerts from sensors tripped by animals and passing trains instead of the illegal border crossers and drug smugglers they…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LA Cardinal on House Immigration Enforcement Bill
During his homily at the 25th annual Migration Day Mass on Jan. 14, Cardinal Roger Mahony warned of new "vicious" assaults on immigrants, which have been solidified in the new…
ImmigrationProf Blog
MARCH/CARAVAN FOR MIGRANTS
MARCH/CARAVAN FOR MIGRANTS -- more information to followMARCHA CARAVANA POR LOS Y LAS INMIGRANTES* February 2 – 18 - 26, 2006 * From San Diego, CA to Washington DC, to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
CRS Report On Fences Along US Border
The Congressional Research Service issued an updated report on border security and fences along the US international border.http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/news/2006,0125-crs.pdfKJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
Chertoff Sets Border Security as Top Priority This Year By Tim Starks, CQ Staff
Jan. 18, 2006 - 12:41 p.m.As Congress prepares to wrestle anew with immigration and border security issues, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday set border security as his department's…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LA TIMES ARTICLE ON IMMIGRATION
Border Security Bill Raises Concerns: Aid groups that assist immigrants -- including the undocumented -- fear pending federal legislation could criminalize such work. Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times, January 16,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Documents for Border Crossing
Director of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, has announced that that "inexpensive identity documents" will be developed for Americans whose routine takes them regularly across the Mexican or…
ImmigrationProf Blog
FBI Warns that Smugglers Target Border Agents
Federal officials have warned U.S. Border Patrol agents that they could be the targets of assassins hired by immigrant smugglers, according to a confidential memo. "Unidentified Mexican alien smugglers are…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Border Tunnel
CNN Jan. 10, 2006 -- U.S. border patrol agents investigating a caved-in road discovered a tunnel leading from the United States to Mexico, the third such tunnel found in three…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Bill Hing on the Sensenbrenner Bill — Or What’s Going on in DC????????????
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0601020156jan02,0,6961519.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hedhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/02/EDG5TG18EB1.DTL An immigrant's death trapBy Bill Ong Hing, a professor of law and Asian-American studies at the University of California at Davis and the author of "Defining America Through Immigration…