Topic
Border Security
1,190 published works
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: Posse Comitatus and the Constitution
The reported announcement that the United States is sending "5,200 troops, military helicopters and giant spools of razor wire to the Mexican border in the coming days to brace for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
President Trump to Seal US/Mexico Border?
There has been lost of talk of the Trump administration taking aggressive steps to halt the Central American "caravan." And the midterm elections are just days away. Nick Miroff…
The Right Coast
The migrant caravan is just making our borders stronger
The activists behind the latest migrant caravan dream of dissolving national frontiers. But all they're doing is hardening existing borders and the hearts and minds of Americans fed up with…
The Right Coast
Why humans build walls to keep people out or in
If it is ever built, President Donald Trump s much-vaunted wall, which is supposed to stretch for nearly 2,000 miles along the United States s border with Mexico, would be…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Checkpoint Nation?
This report ("Checkpoint Nation: Border agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior") by Melissa del Bosque looks at the expansion of activities away from the U.S. border of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
CNN: Inside America’s hidden border
CNN has a series of stories offering a glimpse of the U.S. government's immigration detention system. It is sobering to say the least.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
‘Shocked and humiliated’: Lawsuits accuse Customs, Border officers of invasive searches of minors, women
Tameika Lovell filed a lawsuit alleging that a CBP officer at Kennedy Airport in New York used a gloved hand to probe her private parts to look for contraband. Suits…
The Right Coast
Number of India nationals detained at U.S. border escalates
India nationals, a group not thought of posing a problem for the U.S. border patrol, are being detained at increasing numbers in El Centro, California. Of the nine sectors the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Stepped Up Illegal-Entry Prosecutions Reduce Those for Other Crimes
TRAC reports that the Trump administration's push to prioritize prosecuting illegal border crossers has begun to impact the capacity of federal prosecutors to enforce other federal laws. In March 2018,…
Ohio Clock
GOP Leaders Rattled as Trump Threatens Government Shutdown
By Chris Jones
President Donald Trump on Monday renewed threats to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t approve billions of dollars for border security, even as Republican leaders on Capitol Hill implored…