13 hours ago by Reed Brundage

AP/Fox News: "Max Pons is already anticipating the anxiety he'll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America's border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico. For the past year, the manager of a sprawling preserv ...

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1 day ago by Reed Brundage

tucsonsentinel.com: "The military's presence along the Mexican border will be bolstered this month when more troops and equipment are deployed to Southern Arizona, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said Thursday. Joint Task Force-North, which oversees military operations along the U.S.-Mexico border, w ...

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7 days ago by Reed Brundage

San Jose Mercury News: "Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds." read more

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8 days ago by Reed Brundage

Beautiful, powerful statement from the peaceful Mennonites Mennonite Weekly: "I stood on the hill in the twilight in Nogales, Ariz., looking down over the U.S.-Mexico border wall into Mexico. How broken our relationships must be in order to make necessary a wall like this one, 20 feet high for hundr ...

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8 days ago by Reed Brundage

Nogales International News: "The U.S. Senate this week unanimously approved a bill meant to combat illegal tunnel activity along the Southwest border. The Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2011, authored by U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) builds on a related law that the t ...

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8 days ago by Reed Brundage

Slain border agent's family files $25M claim against U.S. – USATODAY.com: "The family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry filed a $25 million wrongful death claim Wednesday against the federal government, saying he was killed because U.S. investigators allowed murder weapons into the hands of c ...

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13 days ago by The Playful Walrus

There are a bunch of cartoons like this one that are used an attempt to ridicule or silence people concerned about illegal aliens (and the murders they commit and all of the other problems associated with hoardes of unskilled, uneducated criminals, especially if they don't understand or communicate ...

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13 days ago by minifish

I was among the first to wait at the luggage claim area at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport after going through immigration. There was a custom officer not far away questioning a passenger loudly: “How much money do you bring with you?” … Continue reading →

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15 days ago by Reed Brundage

An interesting article about another unforeseen consequence of barricading the border with Mexico. Fronteras Desk: "Before there was a fence, all that marked the border between Mexico and the United States were stone and steel monuments, 276 of them dotting the southwestern landscape. They were inst ...

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15 days ago by Kiratiana

This post will contain no pictures. There is a reason for that. On Friday, January 13, I arrived in London for the first time since the summer of 2009. It was also my first time entering the country since I had my United Kingdom application for a work VISA denied in 2010. Unfortunately, I made $200 ...

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