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| “Not Forgotten”: Graves of people who died trying to cross the border. Photo: David Bacon |
By Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept
November 16, 2017
The Trump Administration may be engaged in widespread
violations of U.S. and international law at the southern U.S. border, according
to new filings in a California lawsuit. The filings offer the latest piece of
evidence of a systematic campaign aimed at turning away asylum-seekers, actions
linked to the embrace of hard-line immigration enforcement policies at the
heart of the president’s rise to power.[…]
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The Border Patrol Doesn’t Know What to Do With the Thousands
of Agents Trump Wants to Hire
By Kathryn Casteel, FiveThirtyEight
November 15, 2017
President Trump signed two executive orders soon after his
inauguration calling for the Department of Homeland Security to hire thousands
of new Border Patrol and immigration agents. But now, two new government
analyses show that there may be major obstacles to meeting those expectations.
The department has not only fallen short on hiring efforts even before Trump
issued his orders but also can’t provide data to show how it would use
additional agents — or that there’s even a need for them.[…]
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The Art of the Border: Looking for Kikito
[T]he way the border is objectified and used can make
people in Mexico suspicious about how people on the other side of the wall see
them, when they see them at all.
By David Bacon, Capital and Main, American Prospect
October 26, 2017
For almost an hour Laura, Moises and I drove through the
dusty neighborhoods of Tecate, looking for Kikito. Tecate is a small city in the dry hills of Baja California, next
to the U.S. border. It's famous for a
huge brewery, although today most workers find jobs in local maquiladoras.
When we asked for directions, a couple of people had heard
of Kikito, but couldn't tell us where he was.
Most didn't know who we were talking about. […]
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Immigration Reform Law Institute's Brian Lonergan:
"America has seen enough tragedies result from its open boarders"
The White House, Office of the Press Secretary
November 14, 2017That’s right—with all of Trump’s ranting about borders, his White House press office doesn’t know how to spell the word.—TPOI editor
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/11/14/immigration-reform-law-institutes-brian-lonergan-america-has-seen-enough
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