Border Issues

Turns out the fence inexplicably cuts through the middle of some properties, while leaving others untouched. Many question if it can keep people from sneaking in at all.

When Chertoff testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, he failed to consider that undocumented immigration naturally decreases when the U.S. economy is in recession.

What makes Ahmed's story noteworthy is that it reflects how many of these torturous practices are now being perpetrated against detainees held within the borders of the US.

The most strategic and important opportunity to turn the page on the immigration debate via the elections does not orbit around the twin axes of legalization and border security.

U.S. communities that have absorbed new immigrant populations in recent decades have seen incomes and opportunities rise more quickly than communities with no such immigrant influx.

Nowhere in the more popular explanations of the government restructuring of immigration and other government functions do the raisons d'etat enter the picture.

For her part, Clinton was the better of the two in terms of the grace and intelligence with which she danced the Border Wall Flip-Flop; She used a recent border visit to launch into her epiphany.

Coverage of the Nevada caucus illustrates how ill-equipped the news organizations, the political parties and society as a whole are to understand and deal with the the death of the black-white electorate.