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Immigration Bill Could Be Introduced By December

Wall Street Journal | MELANIE TROTTMAN | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called Friday for Congress to consider an overhaul of immigration law early next year, a move that could ...

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Gunmen Open Fire On AA Meeting In Mexico, Killing 1

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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MEXICO CITY -- Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wo...

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Pakistan And Taliban Both Claim Success In Second Day Of Military Assault

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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San Ysidro Border Shooting: U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Closed

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home

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SAN DIEGO — Four people were injured in a gun battle Tuesday involving an attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico at the busiest borde...

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The War on Drugs and 40 Years of Escalation on the Border

Sito Negron | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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Sito Negron

I live about a mile from the border, and can see Juarez from the yard in front of my apartment. Helicopters regularly fly so close overhead that my windows rattle.

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More Feds To Combat Border Violence: Source

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to send reinforcements to the Southwest border to help contain the rampant violence of the Mexican d...

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Hands Off My Laptop, iPod, Cellphone, Pager, Beeper, Flash Drive, Pocket Litter, First Born (OK, Not My First Born)

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

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Alan Rosenblatt

Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.

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Keep Your Hands Off My Laptop

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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Alan Rosenblatt

As it stands, Customs can grab anyone at the border, seize their laptop, and demand passwords and encryption keys as a pre-condition to entering the country. And who knows when you'll get your computer back?

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Back of the Line, Back of the Bus...or Just Plain Backward?

Dan Kowalski | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home

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Dan Kowalski

Obama's Op-Ed on immigration today is designed to please both sides of the debate, which is why it's either uninformed or cynical. Informed analysts know trying to "secure the borders" first is all backwards.

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