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Head for the Border, But Leave Your Laptop at Home

8:36 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Tech| travel · 2 Comments

1 Aug 2008

If you are entering the U.S., Department of Homeland Security wants your laptop, and maybe your cellphone, iPods, pager, beepers, video and audio tapes. and “all papers and other written documentation,” including books, pamphlets and “written materials commonly referred to as ‘pocket trash’ or ‘pocket litter.”.

According to an article in the Washington Post, there has been a policy in place for some time that authorizes Homeland security to:

take a traveler’s laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

Also, officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16…

Virtual Border Fence Ready to Go Live

8:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| arizona · 2 Comments

19 Oct 2007

The first section of a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border is just about ready to be switched on. What is a virtual fence? It’s a 28 mile stretch of the border armed with heat sensors, radar, cameras and 9 towers to detect immigrants crossing into the U.S. just southwest of Tuscon.

So far the pilot project has cost $20 million. Hmmm I wonder how much children’s health insurance we could buy with that money? Anyway, the fence project has had software problems which have kept the radars turned off. But Boeing (yes the airplane people) are ready for live testing later this month.

Via / AP

The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Doesn’t Like Fences

10:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| business · Comments Off

26 Oct 2006

The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy organization representing two million Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S. issued a statement today regarding the planned signing by President Bush of the U.S. Mexico Border Bill that will put in place a 700-mile long fence along the southern border.

“On behalf of our USHCC Board of Directors, we are extremely disappointed by the President’s decision to sign the U.S.-Mexico Border Bill into law and do it during a nationally-televised White House ceremony. Rather than cheering and applauding the President and our Congressional leaders for a law that promotes misguided enforcement- only legislation that builds fences between allies, hurts small businesses and pushes 12 million people further into the shadows, we should be demanding that our national leadership seek comprehensive solutions to this complex issue. We further call on the President and those Congressional leaders that originally promised to seek true comprehensive reform to live up to their commitments.” said David C. Lizárraga, USHCC, Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Via / Hispanic PR Wire

Calderon Against Border Wall

10:48 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Immigration| mexico · 1 Comment

27 Sep 2006

The “official” Mexican President-elect, Felipe Calderon, weighed in yesterday on plans to add additional fencing/walls along the border between Mexico and the United States.

We are worried … about the actions that the United States is discussing concerning building a border wall and tightening restrictions on migrants.

Calderon made the statement afer a meeting with his country’s foreign secretary. Calderon is not convinced that the placement of additional physical barriers will lessen the amount of traffic through the border. United States Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist set up a possible vote late this week on a proposal to erect fencing along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border.

Sounds like more band aids instead of real aid.

Via / Yahoo! News

Governors Mull Over Border Security

1:10 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration · 1 Comment

29 Aug 2006

Last week, governors from the US and Mexico border met in Austin, TX for the 24th annual meeting of the Border Governors Conference. Ten border governors from the U.S. and Mexico border met for two days to discuss economic and security issues facing the two countries. The conference involves the governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico and the Mexican states of Sonora, Baja, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Traditionally these conferences focused on interests like trade, agriculture, water, the environment, education and health, science and technology since the Border Governors Conference began in 1980. With a debate raging in the US over the immigration policy, it is not a surprise border security dominated the talks this year.

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