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Central American migrants hesitate
as others climb the Mexico-US border fence
in an attempt to cross to San Diego county,
in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico.
Photograph:
Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images
Fleeing a hell the US helped create:
why Central Americans journey north
The region’s inequality and violence,
in which the US has long played a role,
is driving people to leave their homes
G
Wed 19 Dec 2018 08.00 GMT
Last modified on Wed 19 Dec 2018 17.14 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/
central-america-migrants-us-foreign-policy
Recently detained migrants from
Central America
waited to be processed at a
Border Patrol station.
Photograph:
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Hoping for Asylum, Migrants
Strain U.S. Border
NYT
10.4.2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/
poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html
Two brothers, 4 and 3 years old,
from El Salvador,
were processed at the Border
Patrol’s Fort Brown Station
in Brownsville, Tex.
Photograph:
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Hoping for Asylum, Migrants
Strain U.S. Border
NYT
10.4.2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/
poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html
United States-Mexico border / US-Mexico border
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/21/
how-the-american-dream-died-on-the-worlds-busiest-border
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/
715913063/at-the-u-s-mexico-border-volunteer-medics-step-in-to-care-for-migrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/07/
opinion/kirstjen-nielsen-border-security-trump.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/
706583199/a-surge-of-migrants-strains-border-patrol-as-el-paso-becomes-latest-hot-spot
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/
705620835/with-thousands-of-migrants-crossing-the-border-daily-we-asked-why-now
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/dec/25/
christmas-at-the-border-migrants-tijuana-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/
central-america-migrants-us-foreign-policy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/02/
you-descend-into-hell-by-coming-here-how-texas-shut-the-door-on-refugees
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/29/
661863890/pentagon-5-000-troops-will-be-deployed-to-u-s-mexico-border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/oct/10/
illegal-crossings-at-the-us-mexico-border-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/
lens/photographs-that-humanize-the-immigration-debate.html
the U.S.-Mexico
border south of San Diego
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/
540892890/homeland-security-to-waive-environmental-rules-on-border-wall-projects
Southern border / America’s southern border
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/31/
662735242/trump-says-hell-send-as-many-as-15-000-troops-to-the-southern-border
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/
opinion/immigration-el-paso.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/01/
616257822/immigration-rights-activists-protest-trump-administration-child-separation-polic
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/05/
522791213/apprehensions-at-southern-border-continue-to-drop-cbp-says
Southwest Border
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/
us/border-crossing-increase.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/02/
663532238/fact-check-migrants-are-not-overwhelming-the-southwest-border
The border
spans
1,900 miles
across four
states
– California,
New Mexico,
Arizona
and Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/08/
world/americas/before-the-wall-life-along-the-us-mexico-border.html
The U.S. border with Mexico
spans
almost 2,000 miles
from California to Texas
http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/
should-the-united-states-build-a-fence-on-its-southern-border
For nearly 700
miles
along the
American border with Mexico,
a wall already exists.
2017
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/08/world/americas/
before-the-wall-life-along-the-us-mexico-border.html
U.S. - Mexico Border Fence /
US-Mexico frontier
NEARLY 700 miles of walls
now
separate the United States and Mexico.
2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/
opinion/mr-president-tear-down-this-wall.html
Signed into law
by George W. Bush,
the
Secure Fence Act of 2006
mandated the
construction
of almost 700 miles
of barrier fences
along the Mexican border.
The act also appropriated
the expansion of checkpoints,
vehicle barriers,
and technological systems
designed to monitor
the
expanse of boundary.
http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/
should-the-united-states-build-a-fence-on-its-southern-border
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/us-mexico-border-fence
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/
opinion/mr-president-tear-down-this-wall.html
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/
pkg/BILLS-109hr6061enr/pdf/BILLS-109hr6061enr.pdf
illegal
immigration
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/
683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/
622540331/fact-check-trump-illegal-immigration-and-crime
The unidentified grave of a
person
whose remains were found in the
desert
in Falfurrias, Texas, April 1, 2013.
Eric Thayer/Reuters
Boston Globe > Big Picture
Deadly Crossing USA
May 17, 2013
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/deadly_crossing.html
Trump Told Mexico to Stop Migrants From Reaching
the U.S.
So Far, His Plan Is Working
NYT 27 January 2020
VIDEO
Trump Told
Mexico to Stop Migrants From Reaching the U.S. So Far, His Plan Is Working
Video The
Dispatch NYT
27 January 2020
Pressured by
President Trump,
Mexico beefed
up security on its border with Guatemala.
We were there
as the first
migrant caravan of 2020 tried to pass.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TotscNrI-qg
‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore’: Desperation
Grows for Migrants at the Border 14 January 2019
VIDEO
‘I Don’t Want
to Be Here Anymore’: Desperation Grows for Migrants at the Border
Video The New York Times 14 January 2019
As the battle
over U.S. immigration policy
and President
Trump’s demands for a border wall
rages in Congress,
migrants are
growing more desperate by the day.
We went to
Tijuana, Mexico,
to witness the
dilemmas
families hoping to cross the border
are facing.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=s-GvLRqCe-k
Immigration Reform News: Bodies
on the Border
NYT 19 August 2013
Immigration Reform News: Bodies
on the Border Video Op-Docs
NYT
19 August 2013
Forensics experts in Arizona
struggle to identify the bodies of migrants
who perished while attempting to
cross illicitly
from Mexico into the United States.
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=FYWncRZEiDw&list=PL4CGYNsoW2iCb4uQUNgWK6TJJgNVp-MpP&index=36
USA > border
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-mexico-border
https://www.propublica.org/article/
along-the-border-the-population-is-high-risk- for-coronavirus-
but-testing-is-in-short-supply - April 3, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=TotscNrI-qg -
NYT - 27 January 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/
us/migrant-teen-suicide-long-island.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/
721616007/migrants-apprehended-at-southern-border-tops-100-000-for-second-consecutive-mont
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/06/
710577331/tension-and-anxiety-in-border-cities-after-trump-threatens-closure
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/
630076251/young-people-adapt-to-a-changing-life-at-the-texas-mexico-border
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/
us/border-trump-immigration.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/
622246815/unauthorized-immigration-in-three-graphs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/21/
tijuana-us-mexico-border-migrants-american-dream
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/21/
tijuana-us-mexico-border-migrants-american-dream
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/
nearly-1800-immigrant-families-separated-at-us-border-in-four-months
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/29/
606890139/central-american-migrants-arrive-at-u-s-border-to-an-uncertain-future
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/
arts/design/new-york-academy-of-art-arizona-border.html
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/
543723961/he-crossed-the-border-in-a-packed-unventilated-trailer-and-survived
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/
530843658/illegal-border-crossings-are-down-and-so-is-business-for-smugglers
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/
520874611/when-the-border-is-just-next-door-crossing-it-is-a-fact-of-daily-life
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9jMAThN2l1Y -
G - 28 February 2017
http://www.gocomics.com/claybennett/2016/11/18
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/
opinion/sunday/when-borders-close.html
United
States-Mexico border
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/
a-song-of-love-and-longing-on-the-mexican-border/
border / on Mexico's border
UK / USA
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=s-GvLRqCe-k -
NYT - 14 January 2019
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/
520874611/when-the-border-is-just-next-door-crossing-it-is-a-fact-of-daily-life
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/us/
homeland-security-border-bribes.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/
499318590/what-a-reporter-learned-when-he-infiltrated-an-arizona-militia-group
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/
100000004622115/trump-mexico-wall-phoenix.html - Sep. 1, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/
insider/crossing-borders-confronting-boundaries.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/07/
446082338/for-many-central-american-migrants-the-u-s-border-is-now-beyond-reach
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/19/
432930086/analysts-see-u-s-border-with-mexico-as-more-secure-than-its-been-in-40-years
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/
books/charles-bowden-lyrical-writer-dies-at-69.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aug/06/
-sp-texas-border-deadliest-state-undocumented-migrants
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/
deep-ties-tested-on-mexicos-border.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/
us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/
poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/
opinion/immigration-and-border-injustice.html
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/31/
is-the-border-secure-enough-1
border cities
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/06/
710577331/tension-and-anxiety-in-border-cities-after-trump-threatens-closure
zero tolerance
border policy
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=b86vDOIJ_Og -
NYT - 20 June 2018
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=l3KuK1A53ZI
- NYT - 19 June 2018
at the border UK / USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/
us/migrant-teen-suicide-long-island.html
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=s-GvLRqCe-k -
NYT - 14 January 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/
us/texas-laredo-border-patrol-serial-killer.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/21/
tijuana-us-mexico-border-migrants-american-dream
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/us/
snakes-and-thorny-brush-and-children-at-the-border-alone.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/
opinion/immigrant-children-need-safety-shelter-and-lawyers.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/
opinion/a-texas-injustice-at-the-border.html
be stopped
at the border UK / USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/
us/migrant-teen-suicide-long-island.html
at the Southern
border
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/28/
822676492/life-on-the-u-s-mexico-frontier-dramatically-altered-by-partial-border-shutdown
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/
721616007/migrants-apprehended-at-southern-border-tops-100-000-for-second-consecutive-mont
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/
539263390/death-at-the-southern-border-an-increasing-risk-for-migrants
at the
Texas-Mexico border
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/
630076251/young-people-adapt-to-a-changing-life-at-the-texas-mexico-border
at the
U.S.-Mexico border
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/
715913063/at-the-u-s-mexico-border-volunteer-medics-step-in-to-care-for-migrants
at the US-Mexico
border UK
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/02/
you-descend-into-hell-by-coming-here-how-texas-shut-the-door-on-refugees
along the southern
border
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/
622246815/unauthorized-immigration-in-three-graphs
along the
southwestern border
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/world/americas/haiti-
migrants-earthquake.html
along the border
between the U.S. and Mexico
https://www.propublica.org/article/
along-the-border-the-population-is-high-risk- for-coronavirus-
but-testing-is-in-short-supply - April 3, 2020
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/
499318590/what-a-reporter-learned-when-he-infiltrated-an-arizona-militia-group
on the Souther
border
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/
622246815/unauthorized-immigration-in-three-graphs
on both sides of
the Mexican border
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/12/
519654721/on-both-sides-of-the-mexican-border-fear-grows-for-u-s-bound-migrants
Mexico >
Tijuana
UK / USA
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=s-GvLRqCe-k
Video NYT 14 January 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/
opinion/portraits-from-a-caravan.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/dec/25/
christmas-at-the-border-migrants-tijuana-in-pictures
border crisis
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/
695135985/behind-the-border-crisis-more-migrant-families-risk-dangerous-remote-crossings
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/26/
opinion/why-the-border-crisis-is-a-myth.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/
opinion/sunday/congress-must-act-to-help-children-crossing-the-border.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/us/
obama-seeks-billions-for-children-immigration-crisis.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/us/
amid-influx-of-migrants-obama-to-skip-border-visit-on-texas-trip.html
death at the
Southern border UK / USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/
us/texas-laredo-border-patrol-serial-killer.html
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/
539263390/death-at-the-southern-border-an-increasing-risk-for-migrants
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/
us/texas-border-migrants-dead-bodies.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/01/
map-us-mexico-migrant-deaths-border
Sonoran Desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert
Arizona Desert
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/21/
734016436/1st-generation-mexican-american-attempts-to-save-migrant-lives-in-the-arizona-de
border enforcement / security / surveillance
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/12/
523533985/with-trumps-border-plans-security-and-surveillance-firms-eye-bigger-profits
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/us/
politics/obama-and-senators-to-push-for-an-immigration-overhaul.html
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
CBP
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/
805409436/cbp-chief-admits-officers-overzealous-critics-say-iranians-and-others-targeted
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/
721616007/migrants-apprehended-at-southern-border-tops-100-000-for-second-consecutive-mont
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/28/
680794189/after-two-needless-migrant-deaths-pediatricians-voice-concerns-about-care
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/
623484448/customs-and-border-agency-halts-many-zero-tolerance-detentions-citing-workload
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/05/
522791213/apprehensions-at-southern-border-continue-to-drop-cbp-says
U.S. Customs And
Border Protection > border patrol / Border Patrol
UK / USA
They are the largest
federal law enforcement agency,
with sweeping powers
and a reach 100 miles
into the interior of the
US.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/
the-border-patrol-files
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/the-border-patrol-files
https://www.propublica.org/article/
after-a-year-of-investigation-the-border-patrol-has-little-to-say-
about-agents-misogynistic-and-racist-facebook-group - August 5, 2020
https://www.propublica.org/article/
six-children-died-in-border-patrol-care-
democrats-in-congress-want-to-know-why - Jan. 13, 2020
2:30 p.m. EST
https://www.propublica.org/article/
inside-the-cell-where-a-sick-16-year-old-boy-died-in-border-patrol-care -
Dec. 5, 2019 1:30 p.m. EST
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/
738179391/dhs-inspector-general-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-in-border-patrol-facilities
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=J8bgAcvMaXE -
NYT - June 10, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/09/
juan-david-ortiz-laredo-serial-killer-border-patrol-agent-women-stood-up-deaths
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/08/
721616007/migrants-apprehended-at-southern-border-tops-100-000-for-second-consecutive-mont
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/
719927985/inside-texas-new-migrant-tent-facility
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/
706583199/a-surge-of-migrants-strains-border-patrol-as-el-paso-becomes-latest-hot-spot
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/
684037990/border-patrol-makes-its-case-for-an-expanded-border-barrier
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/17/
guatemalan-girl-jakelin-caal-maquin-death-crossing-us-border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/14/
guatemalan-girl-aged-seven-dies-in-custody-on-us-mexican-border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/oct/10/
illegal-crossings-at-the-us-mexico-border-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/
us/immigration-smuggling-border-patrol.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/
us/border-checkpoints.html
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?time_continue=10&v=ck3q9zjZxJY - G - 18 June 2018
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?time_continue=16&v=w3xmqxoHu9k - G - June 2018
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/
620933918/at-least-5-dead-after-border-patrol-car-chase-ends-with-a-crash-in-texas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/02/
guatemala-texas-rio-bravo-border-claudia-gomez
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/
614268206/border-patrol-shooting-death-of-immigrant-woman-raises-tensions-in-south-texas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/02/
fatal-encounters-97-deaths-point-to-pattern-of-border-agent-violence-across-america
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/
us/politics/trump-border-patrol-searches.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/06/
582706287/former-agent-says-border-patrol-does-good-work-but-there-s-tension-there
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/30/
581879808/border-patrol-faces-backlash-from-aid-groups-over-migrant-deaths
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/
568546381/arrests-for-illegal-border-crossings-hit-46-year-low
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/03/
562003841/girl-detained-by-border-patrol-after-emergency-surgery-is-released-to-parents
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/20/
552339976/border-patrol-arrests-parents-while-infant-awaits-serious-operation
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/18/
520626117/customs-and-border-protection-outlines-border-wall-requirements
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/
516712980/trumps-plan-to-hire-15-000-border-patrol-and-ice-agents-wont-be-easy-to-fulfill
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/29/
499739689/combating-corruption-u-s-customs-and-border-protection-seeks-deep-reform
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/
magazine/10-shots-across-the-border.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/
poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/us/
border-patrol-instructed-to-show-restraint.html
Border Patrol agents
/ border agents UK / USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/
684340457/border-patrol-agent-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-4-sex-workers
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/
674389918/no-new-trial-for-border-agent-acquitted-of-killing-mexican-teen-u-s-prosecutors-
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/oct/10/
illegal-crossings-at-the-us-mexico-border-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/us/
border-patrol-horses-immigration-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/
trump-immigration-border-hiring.html
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/23/
516712980/trumps-plan-to-hire-15-000-border-patrol-and-ice-agents-wont-be-easy-to-fulfill
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/
opinion/who-will-watch-the-agents-watching-our-borders.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/
poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html
watch
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/
opinion/who-will-watch-the-agents-watching-our-borders.html
border authorities in South
Texas
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/
us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html
Border Patrol
checkpoints
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/
us/border-checkpoints.html
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/
539711819/why-are-undocumented-migrants-smuggled-by-truck
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/28/us/
border-patrol-scrutiny-stirs-anger-in-arizona-town.html
border patrol
facilities
https://www.propublica.org/article/
inside-the-cell-where-a-sick-16-year-old-boy-died-in-border-patrol-care -
Dec. 5, 1:30 p.m. EST
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/
738179391/dhs-inspector-general-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-in-border-patrol-facilities
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/19/
490624225/surveillance-stills-from-border-patrol-facilities-show-crowded-trash-filled-cell
USA > US border
patrol custody UK
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/17/
guatemalan-girl-jakelin-caal-maquin-death-crossing-us-border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/14/
guatemalan-girl-aged-seven-dies-in-custody-on-us-mexican-border
holding center
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/nyregion/
immigrant-mothers-released-from-holding-centers-but-with-ankle-monitors.html
Department of Homeland Security
DHS
https://www.dhs.gov/
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/
620451012/dhs-nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-adults-at-border-in-six-weeks
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/
us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html
border fence
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/08/
world/americas/before-the-wall-life-along-the-us-mexico-border.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/
opinion/building-a-wall-of-ignorance.html
armed groups on patrol
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/25/
499318590/what-a-reporter-learned-when-he-infiltrated-an-arizona-militia-group
minutemen
https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-27-
border-fence_x.htm
flee
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/
700428069/migrant-families-arrive-in-busloads-as-border-crossings-hit-10-year-high
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/20/
640350156/venezuelan-refugees-face-violence-and-closed-borders-as-they-try-to-flee
cross UK
/ USA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/19/
central-america-migrants-us-foreign-policy
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/
719797605/1-child-dead-3-people-missing-after-migrant-raft-overturns-in-rio-grande
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/
us/border-crossing-increase.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/oct/10/
illegal-crossings-at-the-us-mexico-border-in-pictures
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/
543723961/he-crossed-the-border-in-a-packed-unventilated-trailer-and-survived
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/
us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html
cross the U.S.-Mexico border UK
/ USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/02/
719797605/1-child-dead-3-people-missing-after-migrant-raft-overturns-in-rio-grande
cross
the border
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/
705620835/with-thousands-of-migrants-crossing-the-border-daily-we-asked-why-now
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/17/
543723961/he-crossed-the-border-in-a-packed-unventilated-trailer-and-survived
border crosser
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/15/
organ-pipe-national-monument-migrants-mexico
border crosser
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/
683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/13/
us/california-border-deaths.html
illegal border
crossers
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/
609225537/sessions-says-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-border-crossers-vows-to-divide-families
U.S.-bound
migrants
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/12/
519654721/on-both-sides-of-the-mexican-border-fear-grows-for-u-s-bound-migrants
crossing
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/
635263880/photos-what-its-like-on-both-sides-of-the-u-s-mexico-border-s-busiest-crossing
border crossing
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/07/
710870473/homeland-security-secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-resigns
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/
700428069/migrant-families-arrive-in-busloads-as-border-crossings-hit-10-year-high
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/
634369290/a-look-into-what-immigrant-families-face-at-busiest-border-crossing
illegal border
crossings
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/25/
726128023/in-rural-west-texas-illegal-border-crossings-are-routine-for-u-s-citizens
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/
568546381/arrests-for-illegal-border-crossings-hit-46-year-low
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/
530843658/illegal-border-crossings-are-down-and-so-is-business-for-smugglers
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/08/
519338631/trump-administration-says-illegal-border-crossings-declined-in-february
dangerous remote
crossings
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/
695135985/behind-the-border-crisis-more-migrant-families-risk-dangerous-remote-crossings
Rio Bravo
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/21/
how-the-american-dream-died-on-the-worlds-busiest-border
deaths in the
borderlands
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/21/
724946559/after-grim-deaths-in-the-borderlands-an-effort-to-find-out-who-migrants-were
Deadly Crossing
In 2012,
sheriff's deputies
in
Brooks County
found 129 bodies,
around double the amount
from the year before
and six times
the number recorded in 2010.
Most of those who die
succumb
to the punishing heat
and rough terrain
that comprise the ranch lands
of south Texas.
Reuters photographer,
Eric
Thayer,
traveled
to Brooks County, Texas
and Reynosa, Mexico
to investigate
the rising rates
of immigrant deaths
along the border there,
spending time
at a migrant's hostel in Mexico
and with U.S. Border Patrol
in
Brooks County.
Many migrants,
after spending
several weeks
traveling through Mexico
and past the Rio Grande,
spend a few days
in a "stash house,"
such as Casa del Migrante,
in Reynosa,
Mexico,
and many are ignorant
of the treacherous journey ahead.
Boston Globe > Big Picture
Deadly
Crossing USA
May 17, 2013
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/05/
deadly_crossing.html
desperate Mexican migrants > death
map UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/01/
map-us-mexico-migrant-deaths-border
immigrant mothers
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/nyregion/
immigrant-mothers-released-from-holding-centers-but-with-ankle-monitors.html
Corpus of news articles
USA > Immigration > Illegal Immigration
U.S. - Mexico Border
Borderline Ridiculous
September 16, 2011
The New York Times
The United States is home to 11 million illegal immigrants.
The undocumented hold jobs, have children, pay taxes, use government services —
and too often live in fear. What is to be done about them? It’s a difficult
question, and one the Republican presidential candidates in the last two debates
spent a great deal of effort avoiding.
Unlike Ronald Reagan, none of these Republicans favor “amnesty,” and President
George W. Bush’s comprehensive solution — tougher enforcement and legalization,
with penalties — has gone nowhere. Comprehensive reform is President Obama’s
answer, too, which means no Republican today dares support it.
Asked about illegal immigrants, the candidates settled on the simplest-sounding
response: seal the border. What about immigrants already here? Same answer: seal
the border. This was both a nonanswer and a call for billions in new government
spending, which was very strange to hear from politicians also determined to
slash even the most basic public services any chance they get. The
seal-the-border answer is not only not a solution, it cynically misrepresents
what’s happening on the ground. It falsely paints the border region as a
dangerous place when American border cities are among the safest in the country.
It also denies the fact that Presidents Bush and Obama have already spent years
and billions on border fencing, more Border Patrol officers and National Guard
troops, spy planes, even seismic sensors.
As for spending billions more to stanch the “flood,” illegal crossings are at
the lowest they have been in decades, because of the fence and the terrible
economy.
We were hoping that Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, Rick Perry of Texas and Jon
Huntsman of Utah would at least offer sensible solutions, having dealt with the
reality of immigration in their years as governors. But reality is clearly not
on the agenda.
Mr. Romney has slipped into and out of practically every immigration position
possible. He endorsed President Bush’s call to create a path to citizenship, but
when Senators John McCain and Edward Kennedy offered a bill to do just that, he
opposed it. As governor he blocked in-state tuition for undocumented students.
He now opposes “amnesty,” rejects a “special deal” on legalization and supports
building a fence, “technologically.”
Mr. Perry maintains that fencing off Texas’s 1,250-mile border is too expensive.
Instead, he favors more troops and spy planes. Mr. Huntsman, who once endorsed
comprehensive reform and driver’s licenses for the undocumented, called Mr.
Perry’s skepticism about a fence “pretty much a treasonous comment.”
Mr. Perry was also attacked for signing a bill giving in-state tuition to the
undocumented. “I’m proud that we are having those individuals be contributing
members of our society rather than telling them, ‘You go be on the government
dole,’ ” he explained. For that he was booed.
But even this assertion of an old American ideal — of immigrants as contributing
members of society — was only a faint echo of Mr. Perry’s former moderation. In
2001, he told The Dallas Morning News that he was “intrigued” by and “open to”
President Bush’s comprehensive reform approach. A legalization plan, he said
then, was better than “illegal immigrants living in fear of the law and afraid
to access basic services.” That’s the definition of a sensible, pro-American
immigration policy. Today, it’s also Republican heresy.
Borderline Ridiculous,
NYT,
16.9.2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/
opinion/borderline-ridiculous.html
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