Posted by admin on Jan 19th, 2011
By Pratap Chatterjee*, IPS, Jan 19 2011
WASHINGTON – One billion dollars and just over four years after Boeing won a contract to build a “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border, the high-tech project was canceled last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amid widespread recognition that it has been a failure. The Secure Border Initiative Network (also known as SBInet) was created by the administration of George W. Bush in November 2005 to track down undocumented migrants crossing the 3,200-kilometre land border between the U.S. and Mexico. Estimates of the number of people that make it across range from 400,000 to one million a year, many of whom hike miles of uncharted northbound trails and roads through steep ravines and hills of the desert to evade border patrols.
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Posted by admin on Jan 18th, 2011
By Julianne Hing, Colorlines, January 18 2011
The parents of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereca, a 15-year-old Mexican teen gunned down last year at the El Paso-Juarez border, have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over their son’s death.
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Posted by admin on Jan 8th, 2011
By Martin Kreickenbaum, WSWS, 8 January 2011
The character of the prevailing social order can be seen in the way it treats refugees. The Greek government’s announcement that it is to erect a three-metre-high fence on the border with Turkey by April, to stop refugees entering the European Union, is an example of the contempt with which the ruling class in Europe regards ordinary people.
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Posted by admin on Jan 4th, 2011
By Jorge Rivas, Colorlines, January 4 2011,
In an effort to bring attention to more creative and just ways of managing immigration, filmmaker Roy Germano shot two young women climbing to the top of the U.S./Mexico border to show just how easy it is to climb to the top. It took the women, who both stand at about 5’5†tall, just 18 seconds to climb to the top.
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Posted by admin on Dec 16th, 2010
By Monica Alonzo, Riverfront Times, December 16, 2010
VIDEO: the fatal beat down and stun-gunning of Hernandez Rojas in this video.
Anastasio Hernandez Rojas screamed in agony as U.S. border agents rained blows on him and delivered 50,000 volts of electricity to his body over and over. “No! No! Ayuda!” the 42-year-old Mexican wailed, pleading for help in Spanish. “Ayudenme [help me]!” It was late in the evening of May 28, and his cries could be heard throughout the San Ysidro border-crossing area dividing San Diego and Tijuana.
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