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Border Security
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ImmigrationProf Blog
New GAO Report Critical of Border Security
The report concudes the department had fallen about seven years behind its goal of putting in place the technology the Bush administration had heavily promoted when it announced the Secure Border…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization and Mexican Migration
Dear Friends, I'm please to announce my forthcoming book, Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization and Mexican Migration, being published by Temple University Press. The thrust of the book is reflected in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
GAO Report on Immigration Checkpoints
The Government Office of Accountability, the investigative arm of Congress, conducted a a one-year evaluation of U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints and found, inter alia, that the agency's self-reported data are insufficient to determine…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Novel Use of Border Fence: Is this What Congress Had in Mind — A Stimulus to the Mexican Economy?
The Associated Press reports what I believe is the best, most non-lethal use of the U.S./Mexico border fence that I have heard: "Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New DHS Blog: Our Border — A Southwest Border Civil Network
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has unveiled its own blog, Our Border -- A Southwest Border Civic Network. Expect a lot of enforcement-oriented news, 24/7.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Golden Fleece Award: Texas Governor Perry’s $2 million on BorderCams
Perhaps it was an early version of the government's "stimulus package" but Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s $2 million expenditure on bordercams, which has netted 11 arrests, seems to have been…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Has the World Gone MAD?
The N.Y. Times reports on the fears in a small town, Arivaca, Arizona, near the Mexican border due to a double homicide in a home invasion earlier this month. "The three people arrested…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Illegal Entry At A 36 Year Low, But Comprehensive Immigration Reform Still a Must
Today, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics released data on the number of immigrants apprehended at the border attempting illegal entry. The report shows that apprehensions at…
ImmigrationProf Blog
An Interview from the Border: It is Not Just a Game on the Border But a Place of Real Human Suffering
This message came by e-mail this morning:"I live on a large ranch in South Texas. Too often we find dumped illegals that have been held for ransom, used as…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Border Patrol and TSA pursue teens heading to school
As Dan Kowalski of Bender's Immigration Bulletin put it, "Feel safer now"? KJ