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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL on Secure Communities
Here is an interesting -- and critical -- look at the Secure Communities program by an advisory committee named by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. For analysis of the report, click…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Rethinking Conventional Wisdom on Border Security
From the Immigration Policy Center:Immigration Policy Center has released two “Perspectives” on border enforcement: How to Fix a Broken Border: Hit the Cartels Where It Hurts, part one of a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Apprehensions at 40 year low!
Fox News Latino reports that "The number of immigrant arrests on the border with Mexico stands at its lowest level in 40 years, undermining conservative claims that the zone is…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border agent says there’s nothing to do, says money is being wasted
CNN reports that a Border Patrol whistleblower claims that the agents are paid to do virtually nothing along an isolated stretch of the U.S./Canadian border. Washington state's remote Olympic Peninsula…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S.-Mexico Border Is Safer Than Ever
Despite the “border security first” rhetoric, the U.S.?mexico border is safer than ever. The Center for American Progress has released a report, “Safer than Ever: A View from the U.S. – Mexico…
ImmigrationProf Blog
State of U.S./Mexico Border Security
From the Center for American Progress:The State of US/Mexico Border SecurityAssessing the Past, Present and Future From the Early Build Up to Today and BeyondAugust 4, 2011, 12:00pm – 1:30pmRSVP…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Safer than Ever, Quality over Quantity Will Move us Forward
USA Today released on Friday an in-depth analysis of FBI crime data revealing that rates of violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border have been declining for years. The analysis uses…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico by Debra Lattanzi Shutika
Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico by Debra Lattanzi Shutika University of California PressSince the 1990s, migration from Mexico to the United States has…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Do You Feel Any Safer? U.S. Government Prosecutions Prioritize Immigration Crimes Over Dangerous Crimes
An astute observer of immigration developments in the United States, Michele Waslin on Immigration Impact concludes that recent reports by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) confirm that the federal…
The Right Coast
Are Mexican drug cartels escalating attacks against US border officials? – CSMonitor.com
According to an article in Mexico s El Universal, the Border Patrol and other US law enforcement agencies that work along the border have seen an increase in the number…