On the Fence
Tags: QUOTATIONS; MEXICAN-American Border Region; EMIGRATION & immigration; SESSIONS, Jeff; RIVERA Carrera, Norberto; SHARRY, Frank
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- PERSPECTIVES. // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);5/30/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 22, p6
This article presents quotations from several people including: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, the archbishop of Mexico City, and Jose Maria Fidalgo, general secretary of Spain's Workers' Commission.
- PERSPECTIVES. // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);5/30/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 22, p6
This article presents quotations from several people including: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, the archbishop of Mexico City, and Jose Maria Fidalgo, general secretary of Spain's Workers' Commission.
- U.S.-Mexico Border Region. Hively, Todd // Let's Take a Look at Geographic Treasures;2010, p1
This article focuses on the border region between the United States and Mexico. The political border was formed after the Mexican-American War of 1848. The region is the only place in the world where a country with a highly-developed economy shares a border with a relatively undeveloped...
- Virtual Border Fence Is Morally Backward. Jeffrey, Terence P. // Human Events;4/10/2006, Vol. 62 Issue 13, p5
The article focuses on the proposed U.S. Senate immigration reform bill that authorizes the construction of a virtual fence along the U.S.-Mexico border as of 2006. An actual fence running the entire length of the border is compared with a virtual fence. The protection of the U.S. border is...
- Let my people stay. CLARKE, KEVIN // U.S. Catholic;Sep2008, Vol. 73 Issue 9, p46
The author offers a solution to dealing with the immigration problem in the U.S., that is to allow people to have a real choice on migration. He explains that those who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to come to the U.S. were forced by deplorable human rights conditions in their home state. He...
- Giant chickens in South Texas? Rodemann, Katharyn; Joe, Tonnyre Thomas // Texas Monthly;Jan2007, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p34
The article discusses the experience of Tonnyre Thomas Joe, a Rancher who stays in South Texas, near the highway U.S.77 and U.S.281 which passes by the border of Mexico. The author compares the migration of people from the border in early days and at present in search of job and better living....
- The Journey to El Norte. Pringle, Heather // Archaeology;Jan/Feb2011, Vol. 64 Issue 1, p42
The article discusses how archaeologists are documenting the migration of individuals from Mexico, Guatemala, and other Latin American countries into the U.S. Topics include an overview of archaeological evidence of a large and silent migration, such as a shrine erected by immigrants in...
- The Debate Over Immigration: 200 Years & Continuing. Roberts, Sam // New York Times Upfront;9/4/2006, Vol. 139 Issue 1, p8
The article addresses the debate over illegal immigration in the U.S. An overview of how immigrants in the U.S. were treated since they started coming during the 18th century, is presented. It details the immigration quotas imposed by Congress in the 1920s which were eliminated in 1965 in...
- Our Wall. Bowden, Charles // National Geographic;May2007, Vol. 211 Issue 5, following p115
This article reports on the stretches of wall being built along the U.S.--Mexico border. Illegal immigration had been occurring on this border for decades but after the passage of NAFTA, the numbers surged dramatically engendering heated feelings on both sides of the border. But the wall is...
