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In the United States, border security includes the protection of ports, airports, and the country's 3,017-mile (4,855 km) land border with Canada and 1,933-mile (3,111 km) border with Mexico. Central to U.S. national security, border security incorporates responses to issues such as terrorism, illegal immigration, smuggling, and human trafficking.
Voters increasingly back more border enforcement, but backing Trump's proposed draconian immigration laws could sweep up many Americans, immigrant groups say. Voters want control of the border.
(The Center Square) – As President Donald Trump begins his presidency with a flurry of immigration-related executive orders, Republicans are relying on policy experts to back up their claims ...
Georgia is more than 800 miles from the country’s southern border, but Republicans insist that current immigration policies have rendered that point moot.
Non-Mexicans arriving on the border are overwhelmingly Central American nationals. The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under ...
The Refugee Act was passed in 1980 to establish a legal framework for accepting refugees, and the American Homecoming Act gave preferential status to immigrant children of American service-members. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 provided a path to permanent residency to some illegal immigrants but made it illegal for employers ...
First Texas border czar Mike Banks talks immigration reform, border security Mike Banks likes to joke that he spent one day in retirement after serving more than two decades in the U.S. Border Patrol.
The SBRC was created by the 2008 U.S. Farm Bill, which also created the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) and the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC). All three commissions share common authorizing language modeled after the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC).