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Border Security
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Ogletree Deakins Insights
Representatives Raise Concerns About Low Staffing at Canadian Border
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced a plan to temporarily transfer approximately 750 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers from the Canadian border to the Mexican border to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration in the Supreme Court: Cert Petition in DACA Rescission Case, Cert Granted in Border Shooting Case
The Trump Administration is seeking Supreme Court review of a Fourth Circuit decision rejecting the administration's attempt to rescind DACA. Here is the cert petition.In addition, the Supreme Court has…
The Right Coast
“We Build The Wall” actually builds… some wall
The group recently announced the completion of their first border wall section. It s gone up in a gap near the New Mexico border where federal agents have long complained…
The Right Coast
Border walls: 77 walls or fences around world, many erected since 9/11
BUDAPEST, Hungary At the end of World War II, there were seven border walls or fences in the world. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were 15, according…
The Right Coast
Federal judge partially blocks Trump’s $1 billion border wall plan | TheHill
California U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, who was appointed by former President Obama, issued the order, which does not fully halt construction but would limit additional border fencing to specific…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Report: Report Abused, Blamed, and Refused: Protection Denied to Women and Children Trafficked Over the U.S. Southern Border
Refugees International issued a report that it abstracts as follows:"The current U.S. administration asserts that its border policies are designed to protect women and children from traffickers. However, its actions…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Driven Towards Death
Guest post by Ellen Thomas, a rising 3L at Saint Louis University School of LawSparks from the welder disappear into the air as construction crews fortify the wall and repair…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: The Border (updated edition June 2019)
Former Obama Administration Executive Director of Policy and Planning for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, David J. Danelo spent three months traveling the 1,952 miles separating the United States and…
Immigration Blog
Trump Introduces Outlines of Immigration Reform in Advance of 2020 Campaign
President Donald Trump has introduced the broad outlines of his proposal for immigration reform. The “merit and heart system” focuses on security and establishing a more fully merit-based system for…
Immigration Blog
Plans to Shuffle Agents from Canadian to Mexican Border Raises Fear of Delays at Northern Border
The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to transfer more than 700 border agents from the 120 ports of entry at the Northern (Canadian) border to the Southern (Mexican)…