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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
The Border is More Secure Than Ever
From the Center for American Progress:Infographic: Setting the Record Straight on Immigration and Border Enforcement By Marshall Fitz and Philip E. Wolgin One of the most common refrains voiced…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier
In a major investigation about changes in immigration patterns, ProPublica's Sebastian Rotella reports that the greatest flow of immigrants to the United States are no longer from Mexico, but from…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: WITHOUT SIN: A Novel By David S. McCabe
WITHOUT SIN:A NovelBy David S. McCabe As a U.S. Border Patrol Agent and a former Navy Seal, Garrett Harrison is intimately familiar with the notion of duty and the necessity of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Probe of Border Patrol Brutality and Excessive Force
From the Southern Border Communities CoalitionProbe of Border Agency Opens Amidst Wave of Deadly ShootingsBorder Groups Alarmed, Fault Leadership Vacuum at CBPSouthern Border Region: After years of advocating for the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Brewer Falsely Attributes Agent’s Death to Border Security Failure
Luke Witman writes for Examiner.comToday, friends and family laid to rest slain U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Nicholas Ivie, who was tragically killed last week while on duty outside…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Undocumented Migration Challenge in Greece and EU
From the Wall Street Journal:It is early in the afternoon at this important port 125 miles from Athens and two Greek navy officers are patrolling the docks, each wielding sticks…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Undocumented Immigrant for a Day: ‘La Caminata’ Gives Tourists A Simulated Illegal Border-Crossing Experience
Will wonders never cease? Sara Gates on the Huffington Post In the small town of El Alberto, Mexico, tourists can get the "illegal" experience. More than 100 residents are employed by…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Why a Wall? by Pratheepan Gulasekaram
Why a Wall? by Pratheepan Gulasekaram (Santa Clara University School of Law), 2 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 147 (2012).Abstract: Initiated with Operation Gatekeeper in the early 1990s, and extended with…
PropertyProf Blog
Gulasekaram on Border Fences
By propertyprof
Pratheepan Gulasekaram (Santa Clara) has posted Why a Wall? (Irvine Law Review. 147) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Initiated with Operation Gatekeeper in the early 1990s, and extended with significant…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Undocumented Migrants: Victims of a Deadly Car Crash
We really need comprehensive immigration reform plus an end to Operation Gatekeeper and the militarization of the southern border. Without those efforts, individuals who are pushed north to the U.S.…