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posted by martyb on Sunday July 01 2018, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the 'Good-fences-make-good-neighbors'-/-Mending-Wall-/-Robert-Frost dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-mexico-border-history-photos-2017-4:

One of the Trump administration's latest immigration policies has come under fire, after Homeland Security figures revealed that ICE is separating families at the US-Mexico border.

Between May 5 and June 9, border officials separated more than 2,300 children from 2,206 parents, the DHS said Tuesday. The policy, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in early May, enforces "zero-tolerance" regulations on those who enter the US without documentation. Any migrant who attempts to cross the southern border — even those seeking asylum — is now being prosecuted.

Following mounting pressure from both sides of the aisle, Trump signed an executive order that he said will stop family separation at the border. But the fate of immigrant children already in custody remains unclear, and the order still faces legal obstacles.

The goal of establishing a firm physical boundary to separate the US from Mexico is nothing new. In the country that has the world's largest immigrant population, American presidential administrations have tried tightening security along the border for around a century.

Though the divide was formally established in 1824, the US didn't launch its official Border Patrol until 1924. Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.

The included pictures and captions speak of the changing attitudes towards Mexicans and their efforts to cross the border over the years.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday July 02 2018, @01:55AM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday July 02 2018, @01:55AM (#701142) Homepage

    My country sucks, I think I'll just abuse asylum laws to move to a better country, like Canada, or Germany, or Sweden, or...oh, wait.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:27AM (#701154)

    It's even easier than you know.
    Just get a student visa.
    They'll take you and even give you a publicly-funded education.
    Wouldn't surprise me if the the people you encounter there speak better English that the dull-witted USAians with whom you hang out.

    I'll just abuse asylum laws

    Even if they saw things that way in those places (which I seriously doubt), I'm confident they'd not even raise an eyebrow--especially with your White Privilege, which you constantly overlook.

    Pretty sure you wouldn't get the third degree in the way that USAians Fascists have been overreacting since 9/11--in particular since Drumpf.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @04:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @04:45PM (#701451)

    You wouldn't pass the IQ test to get into any other country.