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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
War On the Border: A 3-Part Vanguard Special
Current TV's "Vanguard" will air a three-part special on the U.S.-Mexico border issue this fall. The documentary news program, which has been lauded for its groundbreaking and in-depth approach to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Security Texas Style
Tom Barry, director of the TransBorder Project at the Center for International Policy, has written a piece in the Boston Review called “At War In Texas” that discusses the way…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Our Lawless Border: The Murray Danard Case
States Without Nations, drawing from recently obtained immigration court records, has published the fifth of five pieces describing how U.S. immigration agents turned a Canadian couple's vacation into a nightmarish trip…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Call for Papers: Fences, Walls and Borders: State of Insecurity?
Call for Papers (papers can be submitted in both French and English) Fences, Walls and Borders: State of Insecurity? International conference organized by the Raoul Dandurand Chair at the University…
The Faculty Lounge
“You think there’s some law that says you don’t have to answer our questions.”
This is amusing, perhaps a little frustrating to some, and evidence of arrogance or stupidity to others. I don't know where I come down on it other than I agree…
ImmigrationProf Blog
It’s The Economy . . . . CBP chief: Sealed border is unrealistic
"The commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agrees that Arizona's border needs to be better controlled, but he said completely sealing the international line is unrealistic. "This is not…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Jan Brewer corrects the record on headless bodies in the desert
The Christinan Science Monitor reports what we all knew was the truth: "Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer now admits she `misspoke' when she said decapitated bodies had been found by `our…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Border is Secure! U.S. drones to watch entire Mexico border from September 1
It might sound like right out of a sci-fi flick (Machete?) but Reuters reports that the U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Sweeps in North Reach Miles Into U.S.
The NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic and other lawyers have been challenging the practices of the Border Patrol along domestic train routes on the Northern border. The Clinic is also engaged in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Amid the Politics, Death on the Border Continues
L.A. Times headline: "2010 may see new high in border-crossing deaths."What kind of nation do we live in when people are dying while restrictionists are decrying "anchor babies" and we are debating…