Report: Immigration Prosecutions Rise Despite Declining Border Crossings
November 18th, 2013The United States is prosecuting more immigration crimes than ever before, according to a new report from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The report finds that the United States has pursued 90,806 new immigration prosecutions through the first 11 months of fiscal year 2013 — 93 percent of the prosecutions were for entering or
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U.S. Unearths New Drug ‘Supertunnel’ Under Mexican Border
November 1st, 2013Los Angeles (AFP) – U.S. and Mexican authorities have unearthed another sophisticated “supertunnel” used to smuggle drugs beneath their common border, the third since 2011, officials said Thursday. Zig-zagging for a third of a mile beneath the border between San Diego and Tijuana, the newly-constructed tunnel was equipped with an electric-powered rail system to carry
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The Border Security Ruse: Why Republicans Keep Moving The Goalposts On Immigration
October 31st, 2013Over the past decade, the debate over immigration reform has developed a clear pattern: Republicans demand strengthened border security as a pre-condition for any serious reform. Democrats give it to them. Then Republicans demand more, and the cycle repeats itself. It’s time to call the House Republican caucus’ position on “securing the border” what it
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Look Out — Here Comes The New Border-Industrial Complex
July 31st, 2013“Good fences make good neighbors,” goes the old adage. That civilizing thought refers to such friendly structures as the beautiful rock walls of New England, elegant split rails in the South, iconic whitewashed pickets of the Midwest and even privacy fences in neighborhoods all across our country. But the neighborly adage definitely did not contemplate
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U.S. Homeland Security Chief Resigns
July 12th, 2013WASHINGTON (AFP) – U.S. Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Friday she was resigning to take up a job in academia, opening up a surprise vacancy in President Barack Obama’s cabinet. Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona, said she was being nominated as the president of the University of California, and had served as Homeland
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