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Border Security
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The Right Coast
Blog: Mexican sewage warfare blocking border enforcement, agent warns
Are the Mexicans using "sewage warfare" against U.S. Border Patrol agents? A top Border Patrol agent warns that something isn't right out there.Christopher J. Harris, senior patrol agent at the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Batten Down the Hatches: ICE director says his agents are just getting started
In the seven months since Thomas Homan was appointed to carry out President Trump's promises to crack down on undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., he has been accused of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DHS Inspector General Questions Need for 15000 More Border Enforcement Officers
Immigration Impact reports on a governmental report questioning the need for the border enforcement officers proposed by President Trump in his January 2017 executive orders. The Department of Homeland Security’s…
ImmigrationProf Blog
What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law: The Takings Clause and the Border Wall
The latest episode of Elizabeth Joh and Roman Mars' podcast on What Trump Can Teach About Con Law looks at the Takings Clause and President Trump's proposed border wall.8- The…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Flawed Asylum System in Mexico, Strained Further by U.S. Changes
Photo from WikipediaKirk Semple of the New York Times reports that, as the Trump administration pushes forward with its plans to tighten border enforcement, Mexico has been under pressure to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Visualizing the Wall
Whether Mexico pays for it or not, President Trump is quite serious about extending the wall along our nation's Southern border.What might that wall look like? The BBC reports that…
ImmigrationProf Blog
At the Movies: Sicario
Okay. I'll admit that headline is a little misleading. Sicario isn't so much "at the movies" as "included with your Prime membership." Still, it's a movie of definite interest to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Should the US fight the war on drugs by actually fighting an actual war with Mexico?
Main July 18, 2017Should the US fight the war on drugs by actually fighting an actual war with Mexico?The perhpas remarkable question in the title of this post is prompted…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Report on Mexico’s Southern Border: An Update on Security, Central American Migration, and U.S. Policy
In a report released yesterday. WOLA (the Washington Office on Latin America) examines Mexico’s immigration enforcement and its emerging role as an asylum destination. The report also analyzes U.S. assistance…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Amy Howe on Hernandez v. Mesa
Amy Howe for SOTUSBlog looks at the Supreme Court's disposition yesterday of Hernandez v. Mesa, which involved the shooting of a Mexican citizens by a U.S. border officer along the…