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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Frist on Immigration Reform
The Senate will take up immigration legislation next year that will go beyond improved border security to the contentious issue of including undocumented immigrants in a guestworker program according to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Anti-Immigrant Advertising Campaign
The group Let Freedom Ring, Inc. has been running a pair of ads promoting the idea of building "a state-of-the-art border security fence" along the US boundary with Mexico. It…
ImmigrationProf Blog
“Crime Control” and the Border
The AP reports that The U.S. government is dispatching federal agents to Texas. The "Violent Crime Impact Team" will go to the border city of Laredo, Attorney General Gonzales told…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Texas Joins (Anti) Immigration Bandwagon
Governor Rick Perry of Texas has decided to join the governors of Arizona (declaring a state of emergency along the border), California (declaring the need for a California Border Patrol…
ImmigrationProf Blog
CRS Report on “Other Than Mexican” Apprehensions
The Congressional Research Service issued a report on border security analyzing the dramatic (from 25,000 in 1997 to 119,000 in 2004-05) increase in "Other Than Mexican" apprehensions. Interestingly, Honduras and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Vigilantes
Want to learn how to protect migrants from vigilanteviolence? Report Back from the BorderNew College 777 Valencia St., San FranciscoSeptember 296:30- 8 PMVigilantegroups associated with the Minutemen began activities along…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration “Emergencies” In Arizona and New Mexico
For an August 19, 2005 Congressional Research Service memorandum on the impact of a state's declaration of an "emergency" for border security purposes, see the September 19 headlines on www.ilw.com…
ImmigrationProf Blog
“Operation Linebacker”
The Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition reportedly unveiled a plan on Friday to increase the number of deputies and equipment in the sheriffs' offices of El Paso, Texas, and 15 other…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Latest from the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
19 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, No. 2, Winter, 2004.American Bar Association. Immigration and Nationality Committee. The Canada-U.S. border: balancing trade, security and migrant rights in the post-9/11 era. Report written…
CrimProf Blog
Fingerprinting at the US/Canadian Border to Begin by the End of 2004
On December 7, officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced that fingerprinting of foreigners entering the U.S. from Canada will begin by the end of 2004. Fingerprinting technology has…