Gov. Janet Napolitano, likely the next homeland security secretary. (Wikipedia photo) Under a new, more liberal administration, ICE will presumably tone down the raids, and the website for the presidential transition says as much: Immigration raids are ineffective: Despite a sevenfold increase in recent years, immigration raids only netted 3,600 arrests in 2006 and have [...]
Tag Archives: Border Fence
New Fence Will Cut Through Border Park
October 23, 2008 – 5:52 pm
Back in June, News 21’s Channtal Fleischfresser visited California’s Border Field State Park, on the Mexican border near the Pacific Ocean. There, family and friends in the U.S. and Mexico meet to talk, kiss and exchange food across the border—there’s even a cross-border church. Though the U.S. Border Patrol tries to prevent crossings, the current [...]
Federal Border Fence Delayed; Some Take Matters Into Their Own Hands
September 11, 2008 – 7:10 pm
Land disputes and rising costs will prevent the Bush Administration from completing the 670 miles of border fence that Congress mandated, the Washington Post reports. A deadline for the end of the year was set in the Secure Fence Act of 2006. So far, the administration has completed about half the required amount. What are [...]
Legal Woes for Border Wall
April 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
In a front page column in the New York Times last week, Adam Liptak outlined a brewing legal battle against Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff’s use of sweeping new powers to expedite the construction of barriers along America’s southwestern borders. But a legal challenge to the use of those powers is being heard at the [...]
Politics of Immigration, or Immigrant Politics?
February 4, 2008 – 9:53 am
During the State of the Union address last week, Pres. Bush’s mention of immigration came largely in the context of border security and illegal entry, his remarks segueing directly into warnings against the threat of terrorism That’s certainly one way to look at the politics of immigration in this country, as a question of illegals, [...]
