Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection

(The conclusion the Border Lines series: “Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") Immigration is not a case apart. The tradi...

Marijuana Fuels Drug War

(The 10th article in the 12-part BorderLines series "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Makiing the Connection.") On both sides of the bord...

Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security

(Ninth in a 12-part BorderLines series "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") The drug war, declared by President Ric...

Secure Communities -- Latest Immigrant Crackdown Initiative

(An article in the BorderLines series: "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") The Department of Homeland Security alr...

Consolidating ICE's Criminal Alien Program

The 2007 creation by ICE of the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) represented the agency’s determination to consolidate its criminal alien operat...

Increasing Federal/Local "Interoperability"

(Sixth in the 12-part BorderLines series "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection." Since 2006 ICE has assiduously also so...

The Widening Net

(Fifth in the 12-part BorderLines series "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") The hunt for criminal aliens dates ba...

Criminal Aliens Without End

(Fourth in a 12-part BorderLines series "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") There is no good estimate of the numbe...

Criminal Aliens Everywhere

(Third in the 12-part BorderLines series: "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") The immigrant crackdown counts on wi...

The Rise of Criminal Aliens

(The second in the BorderLines series "Aliens, Crimel, and Drugs: Making the Connection") Immigrants have become the main target o...

New Alarm Over Border Security

(This is the first in the 12-part Borderlines series titled "Aliens, Drugs, and Crime: Making the Connection.") President Bush’s “...

The National Imperative to Imprison Immigrants for Profit

There is a codependent relationship between the private prison industry and the federal government’s immigration enforcement apparatus. Immi...