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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Top Immigration Issues for 2016 Presidential Campaign
From the Los Angeles Times:This year saw new influxes of Central Americans and Cubans on the southern border, Syrian refugees rejected by the leaders of more than 30 states and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Operation Streamline: Ten Years of Criminalizing Immigrants
Immigration Impact reminds us of the impacts of a major U.S. immigration development over the last decade. For the last 10 years, in federal courts across the Southwest border, the federal government…
The Right Coast
U.S. Urges Turkey to Seal Border – WSJ
The Obama administration is pressing Turkey to deploy thousands of additional troops along its border with Syria to cordon off a 60-mile stretch of frontier that U.S. officials say is…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Immigration at the Airport: Australia’s Front Line by Louise Boon-Kuo
Immigration at the Airport: Australia's Front Line by Louise Boon-Kuo, University of Sydney - Faculty of Law October 27, 2015 Alternative Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 180-184, 2015…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ben Carson’s Immigration Plans – Wowzahs!
Ben Carson, Photo Marc NozellBen Carson outlined some pretty wild immigration policies this week. Mother Jones has coverage of it.Carson is in favor of "securing our borders." He's in favor…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DOJ: No Charges in Border Patrol Tasing Resulting in Death
The Associated Press reports that the U.S. Department of Justice will not bring criminal charges in the death of a man from Mexico who was shocked by U.S. border authorities…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Review Border Killing Case
The Supreme Court at its next conference will be considering a petition for certiorari in an interesting border enforcement case. The petition in Hernandez v. Mesa presents the following questions:(1) Whether…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Mexican Immigrant Denied Re-Entry Into U.S. Over Tattoos
Photo Courtesy of Think Progress and ShutterstockEsther Yu-Hsi Lee on Think Progress reports on the reliance on tattoos for denial of immigrant visas. A noncitizen recently was denied a visa…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Patrol Officer Indicted for Second Degree Murder
Photo courtesy of AlternetA couple of weeks ago, a Border Patrol agent has, according to the Los Angeles Times, "for the first time been indicted on a murder charge after…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Securing Our Borders: What is the Price of Human Life?
Guest blogger: Sara Bushman, second-year law student, University of San FranciscoEvery four years in this country we are faced with the daunting decision of choosing a new presidential candidate. Over…