A wall of trouble
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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...
- Pilgrimage: 'stop these deaths' Jones, Arthur // National Catholic Reporter;9/19/2003, Vol. 39 Issue 40, p13
Presents a cover story regarding the unity of U.S. and Mexican Catholics on November 2, 2003 at altar to commemorate thousands of victims of perilous border crossing. Celebration of a mass to culminate the event; Estimated number of migrants who died while trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico...
- 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...
- Washington Office joins in call for demilitarization of US-Mexico border, and legalization of economic migration. // Network News;Spring2001, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p27
Reports that the Washington Office co-signed a letter regarding the demilitarization of the United States-Mexico border and the legalization of economic migration. Role of economic migrants in the economy; Response to illegal border crossing; Denial of legal rights to U.S. and Mexican citizens.
- The Mexican Connection in the Southwestern Borderlands An Introduction. Cook, Scott // Journal of the West;Spring2001, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p5
Asserts that the uniqueness of the United States' Southwestern Borderlands lies in their connection to Mexico with which they share a 1,952-mile-long international boundary. History of the boundary's delineation in mid-19th-century treaties; Challenge faced by the border region of understanding...
- A Virtual Fence, With Holes. // America;4/26/2010, Vol. 202 Issue 13, p4
In this article the author focuses on the malfunction of the virtual fence between Mexico and U.S. made by 2005 Secure Borders Initiative under the administration of George W. Bush.
