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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Does the Latest Claim of Terrorists Crossing the U.S./Mexico Border Pass the Smell Test?
A report by Samantha Ehlinger of the Tribune News Service seems to be reaching to try to substantiate claims that dangerous persons with "terrorist ties" recently crossed the U.S./Mexico border. Since…
ImmigrationProf Blog
LIVING NEXT TO THE WALL Photographs of Tijuana by David Bacon
LIVING NEXT TO THE WALL Photographs of Tijuana by David BaconAuthor, photographer, and social critic David Bacon is a keen observer of life along the U..S./Mexico border. Check out his…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
“Everybody has this bad taste in their mouth about ‘militias.’ They think we’re out here trying to smoke people and kill them as soon as they cross the border. Which obviously, is not the case.”
-- Armed militiaman patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas and going by the alias "Huggie Bear"
ImmigrationProf Blog
The U.S Border Patrol Policy is Leading to an Unprecedented Numbers of Death
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Shareholders of private prison corporations already profiting from border problems
Main August 31, 2014Shareholders of private prison corporations already profiting from border problemsAs this CNN Money article highlights, because of the "crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border, ... Wall Street is…
ImmigrationProf Blog
It is Never Boring in Texas: Governor Indicted
CNN reports that Texas Governor Rick Perry, who recently sent the National Guard to the U.S/Mexico border, has been indicted for allegedly abusing his power by trying to pressure a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The GOP’s Fake Border War
Check your blood pressure before and after reading this article. Is there a difference? The assignment is Rolling Stone, "The Fake Border War: How the far right has used the refugee crisis…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration policy leaves refugee programs scrambling for funds
In the rush to stem the border crisis, some of America’s resettlement programs are facing big cuts in support. The Washington Post takes a closer look at how this change…
The Right Coast
‘The border fence is a joke’: Filmmaker crosses from US to Mexico dressed as Osama bin Laden as Border Patrol says ‘we can’t be everywhere at once’ | Mail Online
A flamethrowing American conservative activist raised eyebrows in the U.S. on Monday by releasing a video of himself crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas, dressed as the…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
By mdavis
The recent national debate concerning unaccompanied minors at the border has often seemed strangely narrow and parochial, more focused on domestic political points and NIMBYism than human rights and humanitarianism. …