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Immigration
In an effort to curtail the passage of harsh state immigration laws, a group of Mexican senators announced on Tuesday their plans to meet with lawmakers from several states including Georgia, Alabama, and Arizona; the senators hope to convince state lawmakers that illegal immigrants are generally law-abiding individuals who contribute to the U.S. economy
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CBP makes arrests in AZ, releases through CA and TX * Perry claims he will secure the border in a year * Illegal border crosser promises to be back * Texas AG warns Obama cartel wars crossing border * Mexico urges migrants to come home
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Immigration data
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement voted to issue a subpoena for DHS documents regarding information on possible illegal aliens that the agency has declined to deport after local law enforcement reported they had been taken into custody
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Border crossing
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hopes to open a new border crossing point in a remote portion of Texas by next year; the agency hopes to create a border checkpoint in Boquillas, Texas in Big Bend National Park. The crossing point would be designated as a Class B port of entry — the first of its kind in the entire history of the agency
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Border tunnels
Border Patrol agents and firefighters rescue five people trapped in a sewage-filled trans-border tunnel near Chula Vista, California
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Border security
A recently proposed plan to build fences along a 4,000-mile stretch of the U.S.-Canada border has caused quite a stir among residents of Idaho; last month U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials held a meeting in Naples, Idaho to discuss several strategies for border enforcement and open its proposals for public comment
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Point-Counterpoint
In the first of a new ongoing Point-Counterpoint Debate series, Homeland Security NewsWire’s executive editor Eugene K. Chow interviewed Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center at the American Immigration Council, and Ira Mehlman, the media director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform; the two weighed in on President Obama’s current immigration strategy, the effect of Alabama’s tough new immigration law, and what lawmakers can do to curb illegal immigration
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Business
The border security market will reach a value of $17 billion in 2011, as governments around the world continue to invest in a range of border security products
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Border security
DHS could soon be doubling the amount of resources it devotes to inspecting southbound shipments at U.S.— Mexico border crossings
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In the past when Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would catch teenagers smuggling narcotics, the agency would hand the case over to federal prosecutors, but Border Patrol has entered into a new arrangement with local prosecutors and the U.S. Attorney General’s office to send cases directly to local courts for prosecution
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This week federal immigration officials announced that it had deported nearly 400,000 people in the last fiscal year, the largest number of deportations in history
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Last week a federal judge blocked enforcement of several provisions of a controversial Alabama immigration law
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Iran’s assassination plot highlights cartel-terrorism links | Agents seize 50,000 rounds of ammo at border | New Mexico wants more open border | DC refuses to enforce immigration | Sexual abuse of detained immigrants “widespread”
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Weapons, munitions stolen from LAPD SWAT-training site | Most illegal immigrants deported last year were criminals | Bangkok floods could lead to price rises on global rice market | U.S. says Haqqani as most lethal foe | U.S. wrong on Anonymous and critical infrastructure | The False Economies of the Info Security World | Pentagon lawyer warns of militarized approach to fighting terrorism
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Smuggling
With the help of Facebook, federal investigators were able to arrest a man on charges of illegally shipping weapons parts internationally after he “friended” his weapons buyer
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Border security
On International Street in Nogales, Arizona along the U.S.-Mexico border, smugglers tunneled under the fence and neatly cut out rectangles below the pavement of parking spaces; using false-bottomed vehicles parked above the holes, smugglers would wait as individuals loaded the vehicle from below
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Mexico
Five years and more than 35,000 deaths into Mexico’s bloody drug war, two cartels have emerged as the dominant force in narcotics and the two are poised to slug it out in a dangerous battle for control; the Mexican governmen’s crackdown on the drug cartels has left many gangs splintered and operationally less effective without their leaders; in the ensuing power vacuum, the Zetas and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel have stepped up as the two leading gangs
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Border security
Yesterday, House Natural Resources Committee 26-17 vote to approve H.R. 1505, the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act; the proposed legislation would waive thirty-six environmental and other laws for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol activities on public lands within 100 miles of U.S. borders; environmentalists are angry
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The decade of 2000-2010 was the highest decade of immigration ever; nearly fourteen million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the United States during the decade, despite the decline in the number of jobs; while the number of immigrants in the country is higher than at any time in American history, the immigrant share of the population (12.9 percent) was higher ninety years ago
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After thousands of fearful Hispanic students failed to show up for classes on Monday in Alabama, the state’s top education official announced that children would still be allowed to attend even if they did not have birth certificates
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The long view
Social Acceptance of Immigrants Working as Politicians or Judges Is Low
Often, the dominant society develops negative attitudes towards immigrants and their descendants because their integration is too successful – and not because they are unwilling to integrate. A possible explanation for negative attitudes towards successful immigrants could be the dominant society’s fear of immigrants occupying influential and value-based occupations. This applies, for example, for immigrants working in local politics or law.