TITLE

At the Mexican border

AUTHOR(S)

Anderson, George M.

PUB. DATE

May 1997

SOURCE

America;5/3/1997, Vol. 176 Issue 15, p3

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Presents the author's observation on the wall separating Mexico from the United States. Detention facility visited by the author near the wall; Why service processing center was used as the name of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the detention; Classification of groups in the center; Description of the treatment of the detainess in the center; How the INS presence in El Paso became the evidence on the increase of border control guard; More.

ACCESSION #

9705305892

Tags: MEXICO -- Boundaries -- United States;  UNITED States. Immigration & Naturalization Service

 

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