United States Immigration 2008

United States
Immigration
2008

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More than half the 21 million cars crossing from Tijuana to San Diego each year wait in lines of 90 minutes or more.


Border Patrol Agent Victor Guzman points to a cut on the border fence west of Columbus, N.M, April 9, 2008. Holes have been cut with acetylene torches, hacksaws, and plasma torches.	The tower is fitted with sensors, cameras and other sensitive equipment and is part of the "virtual fence" outside Sasabe near Arivaca Road.

Tower with sensors, cameras, and other
sensitive equipment are part of the "virtual
fence'' outside Sasabe near Arivaca Road.


Ohio Army National Guard members build a road along the border for the U.S. Border Patrol. Guard members said the dirt road turned to mud when it rained and Border Patrol agents often got stuck on the steep hill.	Arizona Air National Guardsman at the border.


A meeting at a border fence near Tijuana.	Men caught crossing the Mexican border in a holding cell in Nogales, Arizona.

Mexican navy sailors ride on top of a seized drug smuggling submarine as it was being
towed by a navy ship off the coast of the Pacific resort city of Huatulco, Mexico.

Tucson Citizen Border News

MARCH

U.S. Border Patrol on Tecate Peak.

On U.S.-Mexican border, new deterrent is jail time
Migrants cost border counties $192M
Virtual fence debacle demands investigation
Anti-illegal immigration groups grow in Florida

APRIL

A Sierra Vista Army National Guard member welds a piece
of angle iron to reinforce the 10-foot fence east of Naco

Where U.S.-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall
Arizona's 'virtual' border wall gets a reality check
Along U.S.-Mexican border, an erratic patchwork fence
Illegal immigrants often die anonymously
Arizona slams door on illegal immigrants
Immigration, Outsourced
Suits over U.S. citizenship backlogs spike
Many Visas Are Sought for Skilled Immigrants
Power to Build Border Fence Is Above U.S. Law
Legal Immigrants, Until They Sought Citizenship
Immigration, Off the Books
Fight over border fence environmental waivers could reach Supreme Court
Mexico police rescue 83 migrants from sweltering cargo truck
Immigration, Off the Books (N.Y. Times editorial)
Mexican security and railway damage slow flow of illegal immigrants from Central America to U.S.
Cuban reggaeton star missing at sea was lured to Florida by promise of money, friends say
Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
On the border with Michael Chertoff
Refugees fill jobs in Cactus, Texas, after immigration sweep
Cracking Down on Border Crossers
Social Security number fraud hurts victims
1,200 Guard members toil along border
Immigrant rights groups shifting tactics as November approaches
France struggles with immigration
Central American migrants met with hurdles in Mexico
Let them eat paint part of Border Patrol's plan

MAY


Flag-waving and placard-carrying marchers crowd Broadway in downtown L.A.	"Legalization now," reads the placard carried by a protester in the march from MacArthur Park.


Demonstrators gather at the intersection of Olympic Blvd. and Broadway before the start of the May Day march and rally in downtown Los Angeles.	Sylvia Camacho cheers with other demonstrators at the May Day march in Los Angeles. Thousands of immigrant workers and their supporters called for immigration reform.