Operation Stonegarden's "Friendly Forces" on the Border

The new border security initiative announced by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in March 2009 stresses DHS collaboration with l...

The Failed Secure Border Initiative

Something isn’t working. In late 2005 Michael Chertoff, the new secretary of the Homeland Security Department, launched the “Secure Border ...

The Southwest Border -- "The Way Ahead"?

In response to the alarm about spill-over violence from Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced an increased focus on...

Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Wars on Crime and Drugs

Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Wars on Crime and Drugs is a timely policy report from the Center for International Policy and its America...

Fast-Tracking Secure Communities

"Secure Communities" is coming your way . Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that it plans to have the new “criminal a...

The "Criminal Alien" Crusader

What are we getting for our investment in more aggressive immigration enforcement? That’s what Rep. David Price (D-NC) wanted to know when ...

Comprehensive Reform and Criminal Aliens

The crusade is heating up to remove “criminal aliens” from our midst. At a time when the Obama administration is sending signals that it mig...

Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement in Irving, Texas

The federal government’s focus on arresting and deporting “criminal aliens” has left immigrant advocates and other proponents of comprehensi...

Breaking the Connections, Ending the Crime, Drug, and Immigrant Wars

( A postscript to the BorderLines series: "Aliens, Crime, and Drugs: Making the Connection.") The economic crisis has preempted an...