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Dousa v. DHS "In late 2018, Pastor Dousa, through New Sanctuary, was involved in organizing a ‘Sanctuary Caravan’ of faith leaders, congregants, and humanitarian workers to Tijuana to provide pastoral services and support to migrants...

In my view, this is one of the key books about the U.S. - Mexico border. See also, this interview and this video .

Dave Maass, EFF, Mar. 20, 2023 "To provide researchers with the tools they need to analyze the impact of U.S. border security policy, EFF is releasing a new map and dataset of more than 290 surveillance towers installed by Customs and Border Protection...

Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 43 / Monday, March 6, 2023 Regional Meeting of the Binational Bridges and Border Crossings Group in Las Cruces, New Mexico "Delegates from the United States and Mexican governments, the states of New Mexico and...

Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Feb. 23, 2023 "I lost the debate, I got hissed at, and I got a dose of humility. More importantly, I got a privileged view of how the national discourse works to shut down alternatives to militarizing the border...

ABA, Dec. 28, 2022 "The U.S. southern border has been the subject of a great deal of scrutiny by policy makers, legislators, the federal judiciary, and the media. This primer aims to provide a broad introduction to the enforcement mechanisms employed...

John Fritze, USA Today, Jan. 9, 2023 "President Joe Biden hopes to broker a solution to the migrant crisis when he meets with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts this week, but his efforts may be limited by the fact that much of his immigration...

The White House Fact Sheet is here . The DHS media release is here . Video of President Biden is here , beginning at min. 54:00. Commentary by former BIA Chairman Hon. Paul W. Schmidt is here .

Despite his recent stipulation to remove his border container wall, Gov. Ducey still claims that the federal government does not own the "Roosevelt Reservation" along the border. Here is his latest (Dec. 23, 2022) court filing.

Paul Ingram, Tucson Sentinel, Dec. 21, 2022 "Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said the state will halt placing shipping containers along the Arizona-Mexico border, and begin removing hundreds of the 8,000-lb. steel boxes set up as makeshift barriers from...

USA v. Ducey "...Arizona has entered Reclamation and Forest Service lands along the Arizona-Mexico border and installed—and continues to install—hundreds of double-stacked multi-ton shipping containers that damage federal lands, threaten...

Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Dec. 6, 2022 "In 2008, I wrote about the first border walls built after 9/11 in Texas, and over the last 15 years I’ve continued to document walls, walls, and more border walls under every president...

Jeremy Schwartz, Perla Trevizo, Texas Tribune, ProPublica, Dec. 2, 2022 "A private border wall built along the Rio Grande in South Texas could collapse during extreme flooding, according to a federally commissioned inspection report that the government...

Keep an eye on Ducey v. Moore (2:22-cv-01814) in Arizona federal district court. For background and context, watch this and this . According to expert attorney Dinah Bear , Gov. Ducey's attorneys are making some rather extraordinary claims. Nov...

Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas "[T]he Court hereby GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment, ECF No. 144. The Court vacates and sets aside the Title 42 policy—consisting of the regulation at 42 C.F.R. § 71.40 and all orders...