Border Walls
High quality essays written by experts on immigration are presented. Essays provide an overview of immigration and border walls around the world, discuss the cases for and against a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, trace the history border walls in other countries, notably the Great Wall of China. Major terms and definitions related to border security are also presented.
Border Walls and Border Security Around the World
The number of border walls around the world continues to grow. Iran is erecting a 700-kilometer (435 mile) wall along its border with Pakistan. India has constructed fences along...
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Overview of Controversies Related to U.S. Border Fences
Walls are among the oldest strategies for tightening borders and protecting a country's interests. Examples include the 25-foot (7.6 meter) high fortress that...
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History of Border Walls in the U.S. and Around the World
In 1986 President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), granting lawful permanent residence to 2.7 million people. Instead of ending the flow..
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Editor's Choice
'It's Our Job to Stop That Dream'.
Reason
The article focuses on the U.S. Border Patrol. According to commissioner T. J. Bonner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, attacks on Border...
'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!'.
Human Events
The author offers her opinion on the proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the country. She...
COMPARING THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO THE NORTHERN BORDER AND THE ISSUES TO BE DEALT WITH AT EACH.
Canada-United States Law Journal
Offers a comparison between the Southern Border and the Northern Border. History of the border creations; Freight movement; North/South cross-border...
Great Blunders?: The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the Proposed United States/Mexico Border Fence.
History Teacher
The article discusses and analyzes the reasons for erecting the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany, which demonstrates that...
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Creative Needlepoint Borders (Book Review)
Library Journal
Reviews the book 'Creative Needlepoint Borders,' by Maggie Wall.
Discounters draw customers to the `border'
Discount Store News
Focuses on the marketing aspect of wallpaper borders in discount stores in the United States. Advantages of wall paper borders; Trends in the...
GRILLED
Sierra
The article presents answers to questions sent in by readers regarding the border wall built on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-Mexico Border Wall
Texas International Law Journal
The article examines the human rights approach used by academics at the University of Texas in investigating the Texas-Mexico border wall project in...
The Party at the Wall
National Review
Reflects on the East and West Germans' celebrations on the opening of the Berlin Wall. Symbolism of the ending of the Cold War; Contrast between...
Regional review: Asia
Asian Business Review
Reports on Thailand's anger over Malaysia's construction of a 300-mile wall across its border with the Thais.
Quilted Chanukah wall hanging
Workbasket
Illustrates how to make a quilted Chanukah wall hanging. Materials; Finished measurements; Finishing border; Casing; Finishing.
Borders to cross into Manhattan?
Publishers Weekly
Reports on Borders Books and Music's plan to open a store in Wall Street area in New York City.
Retreat to the border
National Catholic Reporter
A photograph of Father Ivan Bernal and Father Bob Carney celebrating a mass along the border wall in Nogales, Mexico is presented.
Get Online with a Cell Phone
Macworld
Presents an excerpt from the book "Global Mobile: Connecting Without Walls, Wires, or Borders," by Fred Johnson.
The Border Wall
Cineaste
The article reviews the documentary motion picture "The Border Wall," directed by Wayne Ewing.
Freestanding wall system
American Nurseryman
The article evaluates VERSA-LOK Retaining Wall Systems' Mosette freestanding wall system and provides information on the system's use as borders...
Barriers or Bridges?
Tikkun
Comments on the role of borders in the relationship of Israel and Palestine. Explanation on the different concepts of borders; Impact of the...
On building walls or opening doors
Inside Tucson Business
The article argues the approval of the plan proposing to construct a wall along the borders of Arizona and Mexico by the U.S. House of...
Life Against the Wall
Mother Jones
Reports on the life of the people of Qalqiliya behind the concrete wall built by Israel in 2002 that blocks the neighboring Israeli town of Kfar Saba...
The sociable nasturtium
Horticulture
The bold colors, trailing habit, and handsome leaves of the nasturtium grace borders, walls and pot arrangements with equal aplomb. Grown in patches...
Border Walls Articles A-Z
- "They Love Us Here"
- 'It's Our Job to Stop That Dream'
- 'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!'
- 1 Shibuya Las Vegas, Nevada
- `WSJ' creates own BS list
- A 17th-century homage to Zen and the art of tea
- A 30-foot-tall thank you
- A colorist's classic
- A new wall divides two nations
- A note from the editor
- A Perfect Blue Green
- A wall of trouble
- A Working Dog
- All quiet on the eastern front? Not at Bosch
- An artist's garden
- Another brick in the wall
- Another Brick
- Another Spell of Wallitis
- AT BELLEFIELD, THE secret gardens OF BEATRIX FARRAND
- At the Mexican border
- Back in Berlin
- Barriers or Bridges?
- Berlin Wall
- books
- Border control
- Border Crossing
- Border Fence Is Legitimate Self-Defense
- Border-processes and homemaking: encounters with possums in suburban Australian homes
- Borders to cross into Manhattan?
- Build it any way
- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
- CEILING & WALL exchange
- Chasma Boreale vista
- China's Wall Streets
- CHINA'S WONDERS
- Claire's Stores Licenses Bedding to Whisper Soft
- CLEVER CANINE
- COMPARING THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO THE NORTHERN BORDER AND THE ISSUES TO BE DEALT WITH AT EACH
- Comparison between dynamic plowing lithography and nanoindentation methods
- Congress' attacks on world court put the U.S. above law
- Country classics you can buy
- Country Risk Summary: YEMEN
- Creating Value From 'CONSTRUCTIVE TENSION' In the Supply Chain
- Creative Images partners with York Wallcoverings
- Creative Needlepoint Borders (Book Review)
- Crossed Paths
- Cruz finding new solutions for border living
- Dancing on the Berlin Wall
- Defending a Jungle Kingdom
- DESPERATION AT THE BORDER
- DIE MAUER
- Discounters draw customers to the `border'
- Durham, Northumbria and the Borders
- Egypt's Wall with Gaza & the Emergence of a New Middle East Alignment
- Egyptians View Construction of Gaza Wall As Evidence of Government's "Hypocrisy"
- El Paso County Commissioners Vote to Halt Border Wall
- Elements of design: Frames
- EU, India Pharmaceutical Trade
- European Expansion or Putin Expansion?
- Expression of Tissue Factor in Experimental Anastomotic Pseudoaneurysm
- Fabrics
- Famous Landmarks
- Fencing Around Privilege
- First Gulf War?
- Fleeing North Korea famine appears not to be an option
- Floorcoverings
- FOCUS ON IRAN
- for future generations
- FOWL LINE
- Franklin Street Station
- Freestanding wall system
- Frequencies of Free Oscillations of a Truncated Spherical Sector Covered with a Thin Elastic Spherical Shell
- From Immigration and Race to Sex and Faith: Reimagining the Politics of Opposition
- From Russia, with love
- From the West Bank to the West Coast: "Tear Down the Wall!"
- Get Online with a Cell Phone
- Ghat
- Good advice
- Good Neighbors Needed
- Great Blunders?: The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the Proposed United States/Mexico Border Fence
- Grijalva seeks to stop work on border wall
- GRILLED
- Grounds for Hope?
- Group sues over jaguars harmed by border wall
- Hanging Around
- Hidden Behind the Wall: West German State Building and the Emergence of the Iron Curtain
- High School Dazzle
- Hopes and Fears
- HOW DEER REMEMBER THE COLD WAR
- Illusions of grandeur
- In the Shadow of the Wall and Separation: Everyday Life in East Jerusalem
- Intestinal obstruction due to multiple jejunal diverticula
- Judging the Past: The Prosecution of East German Border Guards and the GDR Chain of Command
- JUST HOW CRAZY IS OLIVER STONE?
- Kyoto Prize Winners Get Set to Celebrate
- Le concrete t�nel
- LETTER FROM THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
- Life Against the Wall
- Live like a Lord
- Local droplet etching of nanoholes and rings on GaAs and AlGaAs surfaces
- Maimana
- Malaysia a country in a big hurry
- Mary Jean Thompson
- Meltdown
- Mexican crisis prompts exodus to the border
- Modeling of plane Couette flow. II. On the spreading of a turbulent spot
- Mongolia, region, Asia
- Monkshood is a perennial
- MUST-SEE PLACES IN BRITAIN
- No Comment
- No More Borders
- NORTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: GRANBOROUGH . GREAT BRICKHILL
- North Cornwall
- Northern exposure Now that the IRA has disarmed, some of the world's best golf beckons
- Northern Ireland and England: The Troubles/Korea Divided: The 38th Parallel and the Demilitarized Zone/The Great Wall of China
- Notes and Comment
- Oaxaca Tragedy
- Old Westbury Gardens
- Oliver Stone on Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, and Hugo Ch�vez
- Olmert's Separation Plan Would End Hope for a Palestinian State
- On building walls or opening doors
- On the Border (Video)
- On the Fence
- ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH WALL STREET
- Our Wall
- Out of Sorrow, Celebration -- A Divided City Reunites After Israel's Withdrawal
- Parting the waters
- Party like it's 1989
- Perennial Pleasures
- Placing its SOHO SKYLINE LOFT in direct dialogue with N.Y.C. views, Dean/Wolf crafts an interior landscape in concrete, steel, maple, and glass
- PLATZKRIEG
- Posterior Pharyngeal Wall Position in the Production of Speech
- Publishers' Page
- Quilted Chanukah wall hanging
- Regional review: Asia
- Retreat to the border
- RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT
- Riverdale, Giordano in license deal
- ROMAN LEGACY
- SEALING THE BORDER
- Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-Mexico Border Wall
- Severe coronary luminal narrowing ascribed to aortic intramural haematoma after valve surgery
- Shedding Light on Immigration
- Shelf Help
- Student Moviemakers
- Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Challenge to U.S. Border Fence
- Surgical images: soft tissue
- The (no-) Wall: Hostile space vs. Neutral place
- The Architecture and Message of the "Wall," 1961-1989
- The Atlantic wall
- The best of the self-seeders
- The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration
- The Border Wall
- The Border: Funneling Migrants to Their Doom
- The Contagion of Freedom
- The DHS Border Fence in the Rio Grande Valley
- The Double Task of the East German Border Guards: Policing the Border and Military Functions
- The Environmental Impacts of a Border Fence
- The Great Red Wall
- The Great Wall
- The iron wall in Gaza
- The Party at the Wall
- The Price of Freedom
- The Rabbi, the Priest, the Imam and Egypt's Steel Wall
- The Road from 1989
- The sociable nasturtium
- The votes are in!
- The Workforce SuperHighway
- The World in One Room
- Time for a Wall
- Time to Step Up to the Plate
- Touchable
- TRUE OVERSIGHT
- Turkey-Press Scan (6 January 2011)
- U.S. Plan To Build 'Wall' On Border Criticized
- Unified Solution
- Untitled
- VENDOR NEWS
- VESTURED PITS: A DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTER IN THE SECONDARY XYLEM OF MYRTALES
- Vigorous response to border walls, immigration morass
- Wall Base is No Longer a Thing of the Past
- Wall Brighteners
- Wall Eyed
- Wall of Confusion
- Wall of shame
- Wallcoverings
- Walled In: Ordinary East Germans' Responses to 13 August 1961
- Walled-Off Wildlife
- Wallflower
- Wallpaper Borders
- West Bank Wall: Security or Settlement?
- Who do you think will build the wall between U.S, Mexico?
- Why We Should Remember Fall of Berlin Wall
- Wilbert Girvan
- World Cuisine 2006: ARMENIAN
