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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
70,000 Kids Will Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What Happens to Them?
Yesterday, President Obama declared the surge of unaccompanied minors crossing the United States border an "urgent humanitarian situation," and asked Congress for funding to address it. This morning, Mother Jones…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Dangerous and Costly Effects of Detainee Bed Quotas
A new analysis from the Center for American Propgress, including infographics detail the dangerous and costly toll of the congressionally mandated bed quota on our immigration system. Beginning in 2009, Congress…
The Right Coast
Only Cartels Benefit from Obama’s Border ‘Monument,’ says Former Border Patrol Association
"This is the wrong place to put a monument," Taylor said. "The New Mexico border has no river--it's just an imaginary line. If criminal illegal aliens can walk across the border…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Minutemen and the Culture of Fear
Guest blogger: Jess Weinger, second-year law student, University of San Francisco“Minutemen” – a term that generally conjures up images of the Revolutionary War and the fight against imperialist rule over…
ImmigrationProf Blog
VIDEO: Exposing Operation Streamline
Students at the University of Arizona produced this video "Exposing Operation Streamline."Operation Streamline was initially implemented along the U.S./Mexico border by the Bush Administration in 2005. The program charges criminally…
The Right Coast
Russian Jet Passes Near U.S. Warship | RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday amid escalating tensions in the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border by Peter Eichstaedt
The Dangerous Divide Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border By Peter EichstaedtHow do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Technology Use Surges in Border Enforcement, Private Sector Cashes in on Border Fears
Julia Preston of the New York Times reports on the growing preference of technology in border enforcement. Merchants of various new age security technologies from robots to drones showed their…
Capital Thinking
DHS Names Acting ICE Leader; Congress Introduces Passport Enforcement Bill; DHS Selects Urban Security Grant Recipients
Legislative Activity DHS Names Acting ICE Leader Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson has announced that Deputy Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Thomas Winkowski – who most…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Death on the Border: The Danger of Throwing Rocks
This McClatchy news story is all-too-familiar: "Sixteen-year-old Jose Antonio Elena got the kind of punishment that those who toss rocks at Border Patrol agents receive with startling frequency: He was…