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- Rural counties on border struggle with surge of dangerous crossings. Wood, Daniel B. // Christian Science Monitor;5/4/99, Vol. 91 Issue 110, p1
Focuses on the attempts to prevent immigrants from illegally entering the United States along the US-Mexico border as of May 4, 1999. Details of the efforts of Gatekeeper in San Diego, California, Safeguard in Arizona and Rio Grande in Texas; Increase in the number of Border Patrol agents and...
- border by boeing. Beiser, Vince // Mother Jones;Jan/Feb2007, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p16
The article discusses a proposed physical border along the border of the United States and Mexico. The article reports that a Republican-backed bill calls for 700 miles of fencing to be built, in addition to a program from the administration of President George W. Bush that proposes to close the...
- The Border War. Johnson, Scott // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);4/4/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 14, p31
Offers a look at the debate over immigration to the United States. Failure of President George W. Bush to pass his guest-worker immigration proposal; Dependence of U.S. businesses on Mexican immigrant laborers; Tensions on the Mexican boundary with the United States; Rise of vigilante groups,...
- The Border War. Johnson, Scott // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);4/4/2005, Vol. 145 Issue 14, p29
Offers a look at the debate over immigration to the United States. Failure of President George W. Bush to pass his guest-worker immigration proposal; Dependence of U.S. businesses on Mexican immigrant laborers; Tensions on the Mexican boundary with the United States; Rise of vigilante groups,...
- The U.S.-Mexico border: a half century of change. Anderson, Joan B. // Social Science Journal;2003, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p535
The region surrounding the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been an area of dynamic growth and development during the last fifty years. In this region where the U.S. and Mexico share a common heritage, cultures and languages meet and intertwine. This paper presents a description of trends...
- Environmental politics and policy in U.S.-Mexican border studies: developments, achievements, and trends. Mumme, Stephen P. // Social Science Journal;2003, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p593
The study of environmental politics and policy on the U.S.-Mexican border is barely more than 30 years old. This interdisciplinary field has grown substantially since the 1970s, however, and now generates a substantial literature addressing a range of environmental media, politics, and policy...
- Processes of identification on the U.S.-Mexico border. Vila, Pablo // Social Science Journal;2003, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p607
This article reviews relevant literature on border identity issues written on both sides of the border in the past 15 years. First, approaches taken by theorists like Gloria Anzald
u � a, Renato Rosaldo, and others who advanced important ideas such as hybridity... - The borders of our lives: A visit to the Mexican border. Hanna, Jane // Network News;Winter97, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p6
Features the experimental, ecumenical, cross-cultural program called `Borderlinks,' which provides opportunities to live five days in El Paso and Juarez along the borders of the United States and Mexico. Government opposition to organizing efforts by maquiladora workers; Chancellor to the...
- A wall of trouble. Young, Barbara // National Provisioner;Sep2006, Vol. 220 Issue 9, p6
The author reflects on the establishment of a 700-mile double-layered wall covering 2,000 miles that will cordon off the U.S. from Mexico to stop immigrants from illegally entering the U.S. She stresses that this idea will not work by citing unfortunate incidents that have resulted from building...
