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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged border crackdown

Supreme Court Won’t Get Involved in Border Fence Construction

By | 06.15.09 | 12:18 pm

The Supreme Court today announced it won’t get involved in a lawsuit brought by El Paso and other Texas counties against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over construction of a border fence intended to deter illegal immigrants.

The Texas local governments had argued that Michael Chertoff, Napolitano’s predecessor, improperly More…

Border Crackdown Drives Up Immigrant Smuggling

By | 06.10.09 | 11:12 am

Let’s see what Lou Dobbs makes of this one: turns out the crackdown on border crossings by undocumented immigrants has actually led to an increase in the violent smuggling, kidnapping and ransoms demanded for delivering undocumented workers into the United States.

Joel Millman at The Wall Street Journal reports More…