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Border Fence

WATCH: Man Cut Out Of The Border Fence's Razor Wire

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2013 | Latino Voices

The San Diego Fire Department retrieved a man Tuesday left trapped 20 feet in the air, when razor wire sliced through his flesh, trapping him on top o...

Border Wall Forces Risky Detours

Agence France Presse | Leila Macor | Posted 04.10.2013 | Latino Voices

A tall barrier separates two worlds. To the south, a crowded Mexican border town. To the north, beyond a heavily patrolled no-man's land, the lure of ...

Steve King Compares Border Fence To Great Wall Of China

The Huffington Post | Preston Maddock | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a relentless opponent of comprehensive immigration reform, on Saturday outlined a simple solution to the complex issue: buil...

Testing Border Security

Reuters | Posted 03.20.2013 | Latino Voices

(Repeats with no change in content) By Dave Graham TIJUANA, Mexico, March 20 (Reuters) - Mexican grandmother Lucia Angu...

Reading the Pictures: The Border Fence: Still Everybody's Dog Whistle

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics
Michael Shaw

2013-02-21-ScreenShot20130221at7.21.43AM.pngPlain and simple, scenes of the border, the fencing of the border and the securing of the border remain the dog whistle of the immigration debate.

WATCH: Border Landowners Feel Shortchanged By Government Land Seizures

AP | PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 10.15.2012 | Latino Voices

BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- When the federal government began seizing private land along the U.S.-Mexico border to build a towering fence, Teofilo Flores wa...

U.S. And Mexico Disagree Over Border Fence

AP | CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN | Posted 07.26.2012 | Latino Voices

McALLEN, Texas -- An agency that monitors the U.S.-Mexico boundary is agreeing to a U.S. proposal to build border fence segments in a South Texas floo...

Bringing the Battlefield to the Border

Todd Miller | Posted 08.07.2012 | Politics
Todd Miller

Border Patrol forces, still growing, have more than doubled in the years since 9/11. As the new uniformed soldiers of the Department of Homeland Security, close to 20,000 Border Patrol agents now occupy the U.S. Southwest.

Ignored Tragedies Remain in Wake of Giffords Shooting Anniversary

Gabriel Schivone | Posted 03.11.2012 | Latino Voices
Gabriel Schivone

This week as communities the world over justly mourn the victims of last year's Tucson's shootings, the violent death of young Torres--one case in a larger pattern--remain barely known.

GOP Candidates Making Promise They Could Not Possibly Keep

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.06.2011 | Politics

By WILL WEISSERT, ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas -- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have promised to complete a nearly 1,950-mile fence. Michele Bach...

Elise Foley

Newt Gingrich Pledges To Build Up Border Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.01.2011 | Politics

As other candidates attack him for being too soft on unauthorized immigration, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich signed a pledge on Thur...

Arizona Mounts New Push To Fence Entire Southern Border

Posted 11.24.2011 | Politics

By AMANDA LEE MYERS and JACQUES BILLEAUD, The Associated Press PHOENIX -- Arizona is taking on immigration once again, with state lawmakers collect...

Perry Recycles Obama Line He Once Criticized

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.03.2012 | Politics

Texas Gov. Rick Perry used the same line he once criticized President Barack Obama for using, referencing alligators in a moat by a border fence betw...

You Shall Bring Water to the Thirsty

Javier Sierra | Posted 12.28.2011 | Latino Voices
Javier Sierra

Dan Millis will never forget what took place on Feb. 20, 2008. As a volunteer with the group No More Deaths, he was leaving gallon-sized water jugs scattered along the trails in the Arizona desert used by undocumented migrants.

Top 10 Best Moments From the GOP Debate

Katie Halper | Posted 12.19.2011 | Comedy
Katie Halper

Michele Bachmann vows, "I will build a double-walled fence." It is unclear whether she moonlights in construction or will have her 23 children build the fence.

Elise Foley

Mitt Romney, Rick Perry Take Hits On Immigration Records

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 12.18.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney defended his record on undocumented immigration during a Tuesday GOP presidential debate in Las Vegas, taking hits from Texa...

Jon Ward

Perry Says Tuition Policy Created 'Tax-Payers, Not Tax-Wasters'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics

SIOUX CITY, IOWA -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry made a new argument Saturday in defense of his actions to give children of undocument...

Arizona Launches Website To Net Cash For Border Fence

AP | PAUL DAVENPORT | Posted 09.19.2011 | Politics

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Arizona launched a fundraising website Wednesday to build fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, a newly authorized project ...

No More Deaths: The Crisis on the U.S.- Mexico Border in Arizona

Ted Hesson | Posted 07.24.2011 | Politics
Ted Hesson

From May 13-16, I accompanied a delegation from Long Island to Tucson, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico, where we learned firsthand about the ongoing humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two Girls Scale Border Fence In Under 20 Seconds (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In a clip released as part of a documentary entitled "The Other Side of Immigration," two girls can be seen shimmying to the top of a section of borde...

High-Tech Border Fence Axed

AP | SUZANNE GAMBOA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday ended a high-tech border fence project that cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion but did little to i...

TIJUANA STREET ART: Dia De Los Vivos by Josh Herman on Artillery

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

By Josh Herman Mordita refers to the small bribes required by Tijuanian police officers, but walking through this border town, the back door of the U...

Ryan Grim

Raul Labrador, GOP Challenger: Troops Should Man Mexican Border In Between Deployments To War Zones

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Instead of having members of the National Guard "sit and wait for six months" when they're not deployed in a war zone, it might be a better idea to se...

Sam Stein

Rand Paul's Border Fence: Candidate Does Full 180, Now Supports Physical Fence

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Rand Paul's Senate campaign has clarified yet again the Kentucky Republican's position on how to stem illegal immigration, this time fully embracing a...

Sam Stein

Rand Paul's Campaign Calls Underground Fence Idea A Website Mistake, Directly Contradicting Video Evidence

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

A spokesman for Rand Paul clarified on Friday that while his campaign website has long touted a proposal to build an underground electrical fence alon...