Opinion: Faith in Immigration Enforcement is Misplaced
Opinion: Faith in Immigration Enforcement is Misplaced
By Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute/The Daily Caller “A strategy of increased enforcement is destined to fail if it is not paired with expanded opportunities for legal immigration.” Click on picture […]
Question We Didn’t Hear: What About U.S. in Latin America?
By Latino Rebels Last night, the presidential debate was all about the Middle East, Israel, mixed in with a little bit of China. All we really heard about Latin America was this […]
Tyranny, the Border Patrol, Laredo, And More…
Tyranny, the Border Patrol, Laredo, and More… | via QueFregados From the textmex obsessed imagination of Memo Nericcio As with most posts here on the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog, click the image for […]
Border Patrol: When Work Is A Family Matter
By Esther J. Cepeda, Voxxi Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent out an unusually cheerful press release: “Border Patrol Academy Graduates 1,000th Class.” Forty-five newbies got through the Border […]
Immigrant Arrests At Border Drop To Lowest Level Since 1970s
The number of undocumented immigrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past fiscal year dropped to the lowest it’s been since the 1970s. According to statistics from the Department of Homeland Security released […]
Did The U.S. Gov Supply The Gun That Killed Jaime Zapata?
By Cindy Casares Operation Fast and Furious—the Arizona-based federal gun-tracking program that led to the death of a U.S. agent at the hands of Mexican criminals—could be underway in Texas, […]
Violence Against Border Agents Declines, Despite War Rhetoric
By Melissa del Bosque Despite some politicians characterizing the U.S. side of the border as a war zone, statistics released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that assaults against […]
NewsTaco Weekly Roundup: Sept.24 – Oct. 2, 2011
There were a lot of stark contrasts this week on our weekly NewsTaco roundup. For example, while we featured a piece by Salomón Baldenegro about Arizona’s racist stance on ethnic […]
Report: Widespread Abuse By Patrol Agents Along Border
Last week the humanitarian organization No More Deaths released a document detailing widespread abuses by border patrol agents against people in their custody. The report, A Culture of Cruelty, […]
Operation Hold The Line, 18 Years Later
About 18 years ago then-El Paso Border Patrol Sector Chief Silvestre Reyes (the El Paso Congressman since 1996), started an operation to deter immigration that came to be called Operation Hold […]
