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November 18, 2009
The Utah Forensics Team is hosting a debate Thursday centered around the issue of immigration reform in Utah. – The event, titled “Broken Borders: Debating the State of Immigration,” will feature Tony Yapias, the former director of the Utah State Office of Hispanic Affairs; Utah Reps. Mike Noel and Chris Herrod; and Dee Rowland, a government liaison for the Utah Catholic Diocese
From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States by mapping the safest routes to take. – This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available.
November 16, 2009
The Center for American Progress applauds Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s push to move forward with the congressional debate.
Statement on Sec. Napolitano’s First Speech on Immigration Reform
November 12, 2009
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
November 11, 2009
PMDG Launches Regional Mexico Marketing Initiative
November 10, 2009
Mexico, U.S. Blame Each Other After Border Crackdown Fails
U.S. officials wrong in celebrating fall of the Berlin Wall as work continues on our own border wall
November 6, 2009
Native American corporations, particularly an array of Alaska Native Corporations, have become major defense and homeland security contractors – responsible for a wide range of national security operations, including electronic surveillance on the border, running immigrant detention centers, and supplying security and other services in U.S. overseas wars and energy exploitation.
November 4, 2009
Native Americans Profit from Abusive Immigrant Detention and Billions of Dollars in National Security Contracts
A soldier every 3 feet on the US/Mexico border = 6,930,880 soldiers – Immigration Anecdotes
November 2, 2009
More than 200 bodies recovered at Arizona/Sonora border
Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.
Remembrance at the border: Migrants killed while crossing remembered – About 200 attended the vigil hosted by the Border Network for Human Rights to honor the memory of undocumented immigrants who have died while trying to cross the border.
October 28, 2009
Mexicans Fleeing Violence Spur a Boom in El Paso – Spike in Murder Rate in Juárez Is Among the Factors Boosting Nightlife and Home Sales in U.S. Border City
October 26, 2009
Texas Dr. Antonio Falcon: We’re Facing A Catastrophic Situation On The Border
October 14, 2009
Lawmakers Scrap Plan for 300 More Miles of Fencing on Mexican Border
October 7, 2009
Amid an overall drop in arrests of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S-Mexico border, an intriguing anomaly has cast a new light on human smuggling: Authorities report an almost tenfold spike in the number of Chinese people caught in the southern Arizona desert, the busiest smuggling corridor on the international line.
A Chihuahua state human rights commissioner investigating accusations against police and soldiers in this violent border city revealed that he fled several weeks ago to El Paso, Texas, in the face of death threats. – Gustavo de la Rosa
October 1, 2009
A U.S. government task force (Southwest Border Task Force) recommended Wednesday that the federal Department of Homeland Security scale back an initiative – 287(g) – that allows local authorities to enforce the country’s immigration law.
September 30, 2009
Mexican drug cartels shift to growing marijuana on this side of border
Minutemen killers, drugs and the CIA – Is the CIA conducting covert operations along the border using the Minutemen?
National Health Partners Announces Agreements with Two Hispanic Marketing Groups
Juan Pablo Giometti, President and CEO of National Hispanic Entrepreneurs’ Organization (NHEO) will speak at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on September 30 at 11:00 a.m. (EST).
U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Deaths Are A Humanitarian Crisis, According To Report From The ACLU And CNDH – Death Rate Climbs Despite Economic Decline And Drop In Migration And Apprehensions
September 29, 2009
A total of 67 of the 78 undocumented Mexicans who were fired upon by U.S. Customs agents last week at a California border crossing accepted voluntary repatriation to Mexico
Former Border Patrol Chief Silvestre Reyes Now a Major Player in New Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security Complex
Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.
September 24, 2009
How much do Mexicans spend annually on trips into the U.S.? Forty billion dollars annually, according to Jennifer Stefano, CEO of Border Billboard
Obama picks border czar for Customs commissioner – Alan Bersin
San Ysidro Border Shooting: U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Closed
September 22, 2009
Mexico’s violent drug gangs are increasingly kidnapping illegal migrants for ransom and forcing them to carry narcotics into the United States as they muscle into the lucrative trade of smuggling people across the border.
When the Border Lands on Your Front Door – “Visitors Guide to Arivaca” is a powerful, emotional and thought-provoking play at the Alexandria Hotel – LA
Juanes ya trabaja por concierto en frontera entre EE.UU. y México
September 21, 2009
Billions for a US-Mexico border fence, but is it doing any good? The cost for adding 600 miles of new barriers is $2.4 billion so far. The new fencing has been breached more than 3,000 times, a government report finds. – also says $6.5 billion will be needed to maintain the new fencing over the next 20 years
Border forum on U.S. War on Drugs to focus on creation of ‘rule of law’ – El Paso/Cuidad Juarez
September 17, 2009
Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the 2nd such mass killing this month.
September 15, 2009
The National Security Complex — Integrating Military, Intelligence, and Homeland Security
New Book: Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization and Mexican Migration
September 14, 2009
The day after Gov. Rick Perry announced plans to deploy Texas Ranger teams to the border, local law enforcement officials said they were skeptical about whether the initiative would do any good.
September 11, 2009
Border mothers angry over Mexican nominee for AG – say Arturo Chavez, did little to solve dozens of rapes and murders of women in Cuidad Juarez when he was Chihuahua state attorney general from 1996 to 1998.
September 9, 2009
The number of people crossing the northern and southern land borders into the USA has dropped sharply since a passport requirement began June 1. – Businesses in tourism-dependent border communities blame the policy for making a bad year worse.
September 3, 2009
A vacation trip through Tijuana affords the opportunity to pass along some lessons about the fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico. But the teacher becomes the student. – Hector Tobar
August 26, 2009
Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal.
August 25, 2009
In 2008, Mexican consulates located along the southern U.S. border handled the repatriation of 17,772 unaccompanied minors, 83% of them boys.
August 24, 2009
Chertoff’s Strategic Partnership with “PR Firm from Hell” – Chertoff Group, founded by former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, has formed a “strategic partnership” with the controversial public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller to carry out the crisis-management part of its homeland security business.
A Texas program to increase law enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border by temporarily reassigning state troopers from other parts of the state is contributing to a critical personnel shortage in the Texas Department of Public Safety
August 17, 2009
Juanes dice que después de Cuba quiere cantar en la frontera de EEUU y México
August 11, 2009
One side effect of a broken immigration system — corruption — thrives on this side of the border too
Border czar praises Merida Initiative on first day of Border Security Conference
August 10, 2009
Busts of corrupt US border police rise
August 6, 2009
The Sonoran Hotdog Crosses The Border – NPR looks at border food
August 4, 2009
Lawmakers are eyeing the Tornillo-Guadalupe port of entry as a potential relief route that could become an economic driver for far East El Paso County. – Texas
July 23, 2009
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya planned to drive to Nicaragua’s northern border on Thursday and risk returning to his homeland, where the coup-backed government vowed to arrest him.
July 16, 2009
In first year, Texas’ $2 million Webcam border watch nets just 11 arrests
July 9, 2009
Obama’s Border Fence The U.S. – Mexico border fence—are private contractors making billions on a project that won’t even work? – (a must watch video – see it here)
July 2, 2009
New Latin Music Crosses Borders At Will – California is America’s main immigrant magnet. As people move to and from — and within — the state and the U.S., the music produced by this shifting population is changing. The stories of musicians living and working in Oakland and Los Angeles give a sense of how the future of Latin music might sound.
June 24, 2009
About 40.9 percent of Hispanic children between 10 and 17 years old are obese in the United States, according to the BHC. But in Texas this number is even higher, at 46.8 percent.
Tunnel Network Sends Border Patrol Underground
The U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission has announced that obesity and diabetes are its top priorities for 2009-2010. – Approximately 1.5 million adults in the border region are overweight or obese and another 1.2 million have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes
June 23, 2009
Show and Tell With the New U.S. Border Czar Alan Bersin
June 22, 2009
Mexico has deployed 1,500 more troops to the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, where homicides related to the drug trade have surged in recent weeks.
Restoring Natural Life on the Border – (with video)
June 20, 2009
New U.S. border czar Alan Bersin tours domain in Arizona
June 19, 2009
Full Text: Remarks by the President at the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast
Child sex tourism continues to grow in Mexican northern border cities like Tijuana and Juárez, according to a U.S. State Department report.
Border Companies Thrive on Mexican-Americans – Exports and imports between Mexico and the United States have grown rapidly in the last decade, to close to $400 billion annually.
June 18, 2009
The Town of Lonely Dentists – Palomas, Mexico — This is the little border town that discount
dentistry built. (with video)
June 16, 2009
Supreme Court won’t get involved in “Wall” dispute – (Border Wall that is)
Follow 2 Washington Post journalists on twitter as the navigate the Mexican border #mexborder or just visit the site
June 15, 2009
Jason Bush, Shawna Forde, and Albert Gaxiola of the Minutemen American Defense group have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges. The three are said to have murdered Raul Junior Flores, his 9 year old daughter, Brisenia, and injured her mother during a home invasion attack on May 30th in the Arizona border town of Arivaca.
June 8, 2009
The Soul of the Border Crisis – Local churches are key in fixing the immigration mess.
June 5, 2009
A prominent North Carolina leader for Hispanic affairs has joined a border taskforce for the Department of Homeland Security. Andrea Bazan
La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Janet Napolitano, anunció hoy que destinará 60 millones de dólares para que las distintas fuerzas policiales locales de la frontera puedan combatir el crimen organizado.
June 3, 2009
The new federal passport law turned out to be a breeze Monday for those crossing back into El Paso from Juárez.
May 31, 2009
El Paso, Cuidad Juárez tout borderplex to nation
May 30, 2009
Guest Voz: The Border Violence Myth
May 7, 2009
Arizona border agents accused of extreme roughness and tearing up birth certificates of Mexican-American boys
April 27, 2009
U.S.-Mexico Border Wall Slicing Through Fragile Ecosystems
April 13, 2009
YouTube riddled with drug cartel videos, messages – The violence among Mexican drug cartels is not filling just the streets of Mexican border towns: It’s also spilling into gruesome online videos and chat rooms.
April 2, 2009
Mexico tightens border crossing – Mexico currently checks only 10 percent of the 230,000 vehicles that cross the border each day
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that more inspections of vehicles headed into Mexico and stepped up intelligence gathering on the U.S. side of the border would be part of an effort by both nations to choke off arms traffic into America’s southern neighbor.
March 24, 2009
Feds to poison plants along the border where criminals hide
March 23, 2009
President Obama is finalizing plans to move federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border with Mexico to support Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s campaign against violent drug cartels, according to U.S. security officials.
March 16, 2009
U.S. Gun Industry Feeds Gun Violence on U.S./Mexico Border, Violence Policy Center Analyst Tells Congress
March 14, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico deployed 2,000 troops to this embattled northern border city Friday to reinforce a crackdown against drug gangs.
Homeland Security sets sight on U.S.-Mexico border violence
March 13, 2009
The U.S. will soon send a large contingent of federal agents to its southern border to help stem the recent violence in northern Mexico, the nation’s Homeland Security chief said Thursday.
March 12, 2009
President Obama weighed in Wednesday on the escalating drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that he was looking at possibly deploying National Guard troops to contain the violence but ruled out any immediate military move.
March 11, 2009
Arrestos en frontera Estados Unidos-México bajaron a niveles de 1970
Rape trees prove Mexican violence has crossed the border and there are women who need justice
March 10, 2009
House subcommittees are considering spending requests for security along the U.S.-Mexico border and ways to help curb Mexican drug violence.
March 9, 2009
Border arrests drop to 1970s levels – With the economy in tatters and security beefed up at the U.S.-Mexico border, fewer people are willing to cross illegally.
March 5, 2009
Armor-plated vehicles rise as U.S.-Mexico border violence escalates
March 4, 2009
Mexico bulks up border forces in drug war
February 1, 2009
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today a wide-ranging action directive on immigration and border security.
Need a job? Try the Border Patrol – That’s the message this weekend in a 15-city job fair sponsored by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is seeking to hire more than 11,000 people this year. No experience necessary.
January 28, 2009
U.S.-Mexico border fence almost complete – just 69 miles to go
January 26, 2009
Border Patrol uses tunes to warn of crossing dangers: Migracorridos catchy but tragic
Bad economy means struggle on both sides of the border
