The Senate on Friday approved and sent to President Bush a bill calling for construction of a 700-mile wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, voting overwhelmingly for a project that became the centerpiece of efforts to improve border security and stem illegal immigration. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

Thanks to increased check points, more soldiers and federal police patrolling the border the number of illegal immigrants have greatly declined.

Oh, I'm sorry did I mention that the huge crackdown is in Mexico? No, if it was done here in the US that would be racist. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A robot, almost the size of a briefcase, has been introduced by the United Kingdom border agency to nab illegal immigrants trying to cross into the country. picked by icepigs 1 year ago

The checkpoint in this video was nearly 50 miles north of the Mexican border, so it would have been utterly pointless in stopping illegal immigration. The real purpose of these checkpoints is to condition Americans to get used to the police state. picked by jLoSsDh 2 years ago

Huckabee is showing his stance against illegal immigration. 1) He will try and amend the constitution to remove the outdated and incredibly abused law giving automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and 2) pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Plans to place federal employees in the largest immigration detention facilities in the country to monitor detainee treatment.

Under the new plan, 23 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials would be placed at the largest jails to directly supervise how the detention centers are managed. Private contractors have been doing the monitoring since 2007. Before that, it was federal employees. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

Attraction in Mexico where people can pay to "cross the border". There are actors and fake immigration people with paintball guns that shoot you if you don't make it. picked by Ankabout 3 years ago

Egyptian security forces have begun shutting down the border with the Gaza Strip two days after it was blown open by armed Gaza militants. Hundreds of thousands of people have crossed into Egypt to buy food and other supplies, but border guards are now trying to shut down the flow of people.
Update to this story picked by juaner899 2 years ago

He says we should be building bridges, not fences. He also said the way to stop illegal immigration is to build economic growth and opportunities in Mexico. picked by coldbladed 2 years ago

It seems that the construction workers building the fence on our Southern border may have gone 10 yards into Mexico - sparking outrage by the Mexican government. I wonder if we can get these guys to construct a giant middle finger and point it South? picked by Browntrout 3 years ago

Tunnel diggers have been hard at work along the U.S. border in recent days and months, the agency knows. Of every tunnel ever found by a patrol agent, 60 percent were discovered in the last three years, and patrollers spot a new one every month. picked by kakana 5 months ago

U.S. Border Patrol agent Reynaldo Zuniga was arrested last month lugging a bag of cocaine up from the Rio Grande, one of a growing number of law enforcement officers accused of taking bribes from drug gangs. picked by deEPCHIll 1 year ago

She's angry because a raid at a Bellingham, Wash. manufacturing plant ended with the arrests of 28 illegal immigrants. She wants to focus on employers instead of attacking both sides of the problem. picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago

The author of the GAO report, Richard Stana, said most of those who were wrongly allowed to enter were economic migrants who did not present a security risk.


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"Oh, I know, let's waste taxpayer money building a wall so that we can just let them through the front gate instead" picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Attention Mexican smugglers - it's real easy to cross the border in Souther California through the Imperial Dunes. picked by suebe 2 years ago

Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal. picked by kakana 3 months ago

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. picked by coldbladed 10 months ago

Missouri lawmakers argue that 80,000 more Missourians would have been born without abortion and that many would now be at the right working age. Instead workers have to be solicited from across the border. picked by ybne1else 3 years ago

Want to skip mainstream journalism's attempts to be bias-free and get right to the vitriol of the people? Immigrationdebate.com admits to supporting immigration, but the forums are admirably raw and vicious. picked by VooDooPeacock 3 years ago

President Bush this morning signed into law a bill authorizing the federal government to install fencing, cameras, motion sensors and other types of barriers to stem illegal immigration along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border. picked by tlovesd 3 years ago