Most of what we think about Mexican immigration is wrong. If Congress had done nothing to secure the border over the last two decades — if it had just left the border alone — there might be as many as 2 million fewer Mexicans living in the United States today, Massey believes....
“Not only was the militarization of the border not a success,” Massey argues, “it backfired in the sense that it transformed what had been a circular migration of male workers to three states [California, Texas, and Illinois] into a much larger, settled population of families living in 50 states.”
posted by caddis
on Apr 25, 2012 -
76 comments
Border Stories is a series of
short documentaries about life on the US-Mexican border, none longer than 6 minutes. The subjects are:
drug addicts on the border (warning: graphic images),
electronic music group Nortec Collective,
hospital costs of fence jumpers,
lonesome Minuteman,
Mexican emigrant safety patrolman,
ranchowners whose land is an immigration throughway,
US-raised 18 year-old sent back to Mexico,
virtual vigilantes,
two old men provide water in the desert,
dangers of journalism in Ciudad Juarez,
graveyard of US tires in Mexico,
drug ballads,
hardened border policy hurts cross-border community,
another cross-border community fears closing of footbridge,
working illegally in Laredo,
mayors of the two Laredos,
migrants' safe house,
hand-pulled ferry,
dentistry in Nuevo Progreso,
Brownsville high school teacher protests border fence,
golf course with the border on three sides &
fishermen on the mouth of the Rio Bravo. Border Stories also has a
blog about immigration issues.
posted by Kattullus
on May 21, 2009 -
18 comments
Just Coffee is a vertically-integrated coffee cooperative with a mission to provide the training and resources to create a sustainable small-scale international coffee company fully owned and controlled by the coffee growers. Could they also provide a model
solution for the immigration problem?
posted by carsonb
on Feb 18, 2007 -
17 comments
Deserts are dry? Sue. "The families of 11 immigrants who died [while] illegally crossing into Arizona from Mexico have filed a $41 million claim against two federal agencies, saying the government's refusal to put water out in the desert contributed to the migrants' deaths." Do they have a case?
posted by darukaru
on May 11, 2002 -
53 comments
Utah politics you don't know whether to laugh or cry. From Paul Rolly's column in the Salt Lake Tribune
"The Republican state convention delegate was discussing with a prominent Utah GOP elected officeholder the issue of immigration when the delegate whined that a fence should be constructed to span the entire USA-Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants.
"What happens when they climb the fence?" asked the politician.
"You electrify it," said the delegate. "Then they won't touch it."
"But what if they touch it? You would let them die?"
"It would be their choice," said the delegate.
"What about a mother with a baby strapped to her back? You would let the mother and the baby die?"
"It would be the mother's choice to kill that baby," said the delegate.
"Then you're in favor of abortion?" asked the officeholder.
Dead silence. "
posted by onegoodmove
on Apr 28, 2002 -
24 comments
In the desert on the U.S.-Mexico border,
charity becomes political protest as humanitarian groups seek to put hundreds of gallons of water in the form of "watering stations" -- a few gallons of water and a blue flag -- on federal, military, private, and Indian lands.
posted by sudama
on Jun 11, 2001 -
3 comments
