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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
USA Today: One deadly week reveals where the immigration crisis begins — and where it ends
MEXICALI, Mexico – Marisela Lopez, 28, holds her 6-year-old daughter, Maritza Salazar Lopez, as Andrea Delgado with the Baja California state health ministry draws blood from her finger on June…
The Right Coast
Inside Trump s immigration tent courts: Controversial system meant to fast-track asylum backlog | Fox News
LAREDO, Texas -- The white tents that sit here on the very edge of the U.S border, with Mexico a literal stone s throw away, represent one of the jewels in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
More Than A Wall: Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US borders
In More Than A Wall: Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US Borders, Todd Miller examines the role of the world’s largest arms (as well as a number of other security…
The Right Coast
Trump’s starting to win big on controlling the southern border
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled to permit the administration to go on refusing to accept applications for asylum from migrants who have passed through another country without being denied…
The Right Coast
Tulsi Gabbard’s Open Borders Comments: Democratic Primary Field Has Embraced ‘Open Borders’ | National Review
I don t support open borders. Without secure borders, we don t really have a country, she said. And while some of the other Democratic candidates will say well, open…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump bets on immigration fears to keep North Carolina House seat
Here we go again. David Knowles reports that, on the eve of a special election in a state crucial to his reelection, President Trump traveled to Fayetteville, North Carolina yesterday…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Empire of Borders by Todd Miller
Empire of Borders by Todd MillerThe United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad--and essentially expanding its borders in the processThe twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international…
Gravel2Gavel
Supreme Court Allows Construction to Proceed on Southern Border
On July 26, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can access $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds to replace and enhance sections of barrier along the…
The Right Coast
Pentagon to deploy additional 2,100 troops to U.S.-Mexico border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would send an additional 1,000 Texas National Guard and 1,100 active duty troops to the border with Mexico, the latest deployment…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Spike in Unaccompanied Child Arrivals at U.S.-Mexico Border Proves Enduring Challenge; Citizenship Question on 2020 Census in Doubt
Migration Information SourcePolicy Beat Spike in Unaccompanied Child Arrivals at U.S.-Mexico Border Proves Enduring ChallengeApproximately 11,500 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in May, putting this year on…