The Numbers Game on the Border

Border fence near Ft. Hancock, Texas/Photo by Tom Barry The Border Patrol is losing a game of its own making. For decades the Border Patro...

Criminal Aliens from "Geopolitical Perspective"

At a time when an immigration reform that would legalize the status of the 10-million plus population of unauthorized immigrants seems like ...

Border Patrols Returns to "Turn Back South" Controversy

Arizona Sheriffs Dever and Babeu/AP Pity the poor Border Patrol.  Whether apprehensions and seizures are up or down, the Border Patrol has u...

Cong. Reyes and the Drone Lobby

(In an interview published by El Paso Inc, an El Paso magazine, U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes indicated that he favored the deployment of drones...

Bring the Drones In: Reyes and Homeland Security

U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) is not your prototypical border security hawk. Representing the El Paso area, Reyes doesn’t tap fears of...

Sharing Responsibility for Bloody Drug War

Boxed marijuana in West Texas' Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office/Photo by Tom Barry Critics of the Mérida Initiative will surely find...