Binational Migration Institute

Effectiveness of DHS’ “Consequences Delivery System” Questioned Despite billions of tax-payer dollars spent by the government on border security and immigration enforcement each year, the effectiveness of such an onerous expense has been long questioned.

Latino immigrants bring youth, energy to U.S. culture, economy: Tim Rutten It can be informative, sometimes sobering, to catch a glimpse of ourselves as others see us.That’s certainly the case with the current Economist’s persuasively clear-eyed and overwhelmingly positive 16-page appraisal of America

Apropos to the video we posted a few days ago (props to Murphy Woodhouse) exposing the hypocrisies of Obama's speech in Berlin denouncing Berlin Wall while very similar wall-building and intolerance takes place at the U.S.-Mexico border: Senator John McCain just praised the new immigration reform bill because it effectively creates "...the most militarized border after the Berlin Wall. That's why I think this amendment was very important." ~Sen. John McCain

At least he's being honest about what this bill will really do.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/immigration/mccain-compares-future-us-mexico-border-berlin-wall-video

McCain Compares Future US-Mexico Border to Berlin Wall (Video) On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain lauded a new amendment to the immigration reform bill, noting that it would create a patrolled United States-Mexico border not unlike the Berlin Wall.

BORSTAR - a branch of Border Patrol in charge of medical aid and migrant medical rescue - talks to Tucson's local news about their work. The agent interviewed relates that the organization's term for migrants they rescue, specifically those who are dehydrated and at the point of death (that's what the story is about after all, BP's migrant rescue track record), is "quitters." That's what BORSTAR calls these individuals, not just a term the interviewee uses. The agent goes on to refer to the life saving humanitarian aid provisions provided by organizations like No More Deaths and Samaritans - things like food and water - as "false hope." http://www.kvoa.com/news/borstar-keeping-busy-during-triple-digit-heat/ #.UcnzIAfo4g4.email

BORSTAR keeping busy during triple digit heat | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona TUCSON-Part of the Senate's border surge proposal would be to double patrol agents at the border.