A 1994 US policy was supposed to deter migration by securing popular access points. Instead, it drives people to enter the US by more hazardous means, such as being crammed in hot tractor-trailers.
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Asylum-seekers will now be prevented from applying for asylum in the United States if they could have pursued asylum in another country first.
Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
As part of a new ‘metering’ policy, US officials are turning asylum seekers away at ports of entry along the southern border. Thousands wait, straining the resources of Mexican border towns.
Thousands of Central American migrants are trying to cross the U.S. southern border. One scholar followed their paths to find out why they make the dangerous, sometimes deadly, journey.
In Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley, Border Patrol agents must ignore blistering heat and 25 mile-an-hour winds. Their job is simple: Catch terrorists, people without papers or those carrying drugs.
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Professor of Geography, Vassar College
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Hofstra University
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Assistant Professor of Human Security, American University School of International Service
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Professor of sociology, East Carolina University
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Graduate Student Researcher at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Director of the Mexico Security Initiative, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Law and Director of Immigration Law Clinic, Albany Law School
