border control and immigration

• Immigration and border control.

For the past two decades the United States, a country with a strong tradition of limited government, has been pursuing a widely popular initiative tha...

• The Cato Journal
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 1, January 2012

• Arizona Governor Sues Federal Government

PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer sued the federal government Thursday for failing to control Arizona's border with Mexico and enforce immigration laws, and for sticking the state with huge costs associated with jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes. The lawsuit claims the federal government has failed to protect Arizona from an "invasion" of illegal immigrants. It seeks increased reimbursements and extra safeguards, such as additional border fences.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• February 16, 2011

• Our Borders a Decade After 9/11

Key Congressman, Analysts Examine Immigration Improvements, Remaining Challenges WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ten years after 19 foreign hijackers staged the 9/11 attacks, much has changed in America's immigration and border-control policies, and much has not. The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion to examine what's been done in immigration and related areas since 9/ 11 to strengthen America's security and what challenges remain.

• U.S. Newswire
• September 07, 2011

• Immigration Debate Sizzles: The Need for Comprehensive Solutions

If passed, the original Republican-dominated House Bill 4437 (U.R. 4437), the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, would have gone beyond its mandate by installing harsh enforcement measures, hearkening back to the anti-immigration, nativist specter that has recurrently cast its shadow over American history. In fact, some of the provisions in the Senate bill closely resembled those of the reactionary House-backed plan by endangering due process and civil liberty protections in the name of law enforcement and U.S. homeland security considerations.

• Washington Report on the Hemisphere
• August 11, 2009

• ; Ex-Fema Chief: 'Shut It Down' with Technology

Joe M. Allbaugh, the outspoken former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), says the U.S. government needs to do a better job of securing the U.S.-Mexico border against illegal immigration and to step up its efforts to control what's being shipped daily into the United States. The southern border is porous, and we need to shut it down if we hope to get ahead of the problems that illegal immigration brings," Mr. Allbaugh said on Thursday during a luncheon meeting with editors at The Washington Times. "Less than 5 percent of the 125,000 containers coming into this country each day are ever inspected.

• The Washington Times
• September 23, 2011

• The Immigration Bill Is an Insult: ; Americans Want Border Control - and the Einsteins

WASHINGTON Beware legislative behemoths. Beware comprehensive immigration reform. Any bill that is 380 pages long is bound to have nooks and crannies...

• Charleston Gazette
• June 04, 2007

• Introduction: Citizenship Surveillance of La Gente (the People)-Theory, Practice, and Cultural Citizen Voices

Contributors also critically examine the power relations embodied in citizenship inequalities that have been resisted by Latinas/os across generations before and during the proposal of anti-immigrant U.S. House Resolution (H.R.) 4437, also known as the Border Protection, Antiteirorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act, which initially passed in December 2005, but was stalled in the House-Senate Conference Committee in June 2006. According to Quijada, youth activism on citizenship issues has led some researchers to ask, "What does it mean to do research and to teach in the area of youth studies when young people who are not participants of our studies walk out of their high schools and demand civic participation?" By blending personal testimony with ethnographic data, Quijada explain...

• Social Justice
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 1, January 2008

• Our View

Our country's inability to achieve border control and intelligent immigration reform is impeded by emotion. Just consider the hysterical and mean-spirited response to a Gazette story Thursday about a local girl fighting for her life. The story told of a $1 million settlement offered by Memorial Hospital and accepted by Jesus Flores and Marisela Rios. The couple's daughter, Luzdeestrella Flores-Rios, underwent kidney removal in January 2007 at 2 months of age. The parents spoke little English. The baby suffered kidney failure after the surgery and is on dialysis awaiting a transplant.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• July 12, 2010

• Minuteman Founder to Speak in Claremont

CLAREMONT - Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist will speak tonight to the local Republican Club on protecting the border with Mexico from illegal immigration. Gilchrist and The Minuteman Project are known for pushing for strict Mexican border control and immigration law enforcement.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• April 20, 2009

• Expect 'Rule of Law' to Rule Immigration Policy

In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the restrictionist camp found that their messaging about the "illegality" and "criminality" of illegal immigrants took on a new resonance. And they proceeded to upscale their "what don't you understand about illegal?" message, which had echoed through the anti-immigration grassroots forces, to a more conceptual framing of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants now represented a threat to the "rule of law" inside a nation that had just come under foreign attack by foreign outlaws. Acknowledging that the immigration restrictionists have dominated the immigration debate, the Democratic Party and its allies have over the past year desperately sought to reframe the immigration crisis while at the same time attracting the allegiance of Latinos and "New Americans...

... employer sanction laws and strengthened border control, and who has declared the Arizona-Mexico b...

• La Prensa San Diego
• September 01, 2009