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Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 2nd, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 21st, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Billions for a US-Mexico border fence, but is it doing any good? The cost for adding 600 miles of new barriers is $2.4 billion so far. The new fencing has been breached more than 3,000 times, a government report finds. – also says $6.5 billion will be needed to maintain the new fencing over the next 20 years

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 3rd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 26th, 2009

Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 9th, 2009 (10 days worth)

Obama’s Border Fence The U.S. – Mexico border fence—are private contractors making billions on a project that won’t even work? – (a must watch video – see it here)

News Summaries for January 28th, 2009

The controversial U.S.-Mexico border fence could be finished in the El Paso region in about two weeks as construction nears its national goal, officials said.

U.S.-Mexico border fence almost complete – just 69 miles to go

News Summary – January 23rd-26th, 2009

Opponents of the Border Fence Look to Obama

Tensions rise with U.S.-Mexican border fence – As construction crews have moved into El Paso, a working-class, largely Hispanic city of 600,000 in Texas’ western corner, emotions have intensified.

News Summary for December 23rd – 28th, 2008

Border Fence Project Surpasses 500-Mile Mark Pedestrian, Vehicle Fence Installed Along the Border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas + Fact Sheet

The U.S. government has completed 500 miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, which is just 170 miles short of its goal.

News Summary for Monday – November 17th, 2008

Leaders from Texas-Mexico border communities asked state legislators Thursday to help them take a stand against a federal border fence that they say harms business, culture and wildlife habitat.

Blogante News Summary for October 15th, 2008

Tijuana River drifters haunt border fence’s shadow

One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for making academic advances. – The Brownsville Independent School District serves nearly 50,000 students — 98 percent Hispanic and 43 percent learning English.

Border visits no longer will be day at beach – The federal government’s effort to slam the door on illegal immigration, drug smuggling and the threat of terrorism means a new secondary fence will be built in the park, creating a 90-foot-wide no-man’s land of patrol roads and security lights that extends to the sea. – Southern California

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – September 16th, 2008

Blogante News Essentials for Tuesday – September 16th, 2008

Fenceless border presents challenges in Big Bend area

Documentary ‘Border’ Delivers Rarely Seen Side of Illegal Immigration

Blogante News Summary for Friday – September 12th, 2008

Blogante News Essentials for Friday – September 12th, 2008

The Bush administration needs an extra $400 million to complete its fence along the country’s southwestern border, and government investigators say that may not even be enough to finish construction by the end of this year.

News Summary for Monday – August 18th, 2008

Essentials for Monday – August 18th, 2008

Valley residents fenced into no man’s land by border wall -16-year-old Aaron Anzaldua jumps off the family tractor after cutting the grass around his family’s ranch. Under current border-fence construction plans, the ranch would be cut off from the rest of the state.

News Summary for Sunday – August 17th, 2008

A border fence that doubles as a billboard? Why not?

Blogante News Summary for Monday – August 11th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Monday – August 11th, 2008

As Valley border fence work begins, questions resurface – Feds take steps to make sure only legal workers build barriers

Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – August 5th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Tuesday – August 5th, 2008

US races to erect controversial steel fence on Mexican border

Blogante News Summary for Thursday – July 24th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Thursday – July 24th, 2008

Illinois Rep. Foster travels to U.S.-Mexico border

Blogante News Summary – Wednesday – July 16th, 2008

Border fence lawsuit will be heard in federal court in El Paso

Blogante Essentials – Sunday – July 13th, 2008 (no rss)

Marchers pray for immigration reform, end to border fence – El Paso

Blogante News for Monday – June 28th, 2008

The Border Fence Folly – Six simple reasons the border fence is terrible policy

Border fence would cut through Texas university

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 24th, 2008

Yoga event stretches across US-Mexico border fence

Immigrant deaths are down in Yuma sector

Border fence challenge rebuffed by Supreme Court – The justices decline to hear a petition from environmentalists, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to continue construction.

Will the fence work if troops head home?

Dangers of America’s Mexico-bashing

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 17th, 2008

More than words needed with Latino voters – Jorge Ramos

Did You Know? Obama voted to authorize construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.

DHS: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Commerce Secretary Gutierrez at the State of Immigration Address

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 10th, 2008

Boeing awarded contract on border fence: Chertoff

Resistance at US/Mexico border heats up in anticipation of next month’s fence construction (Latina Lista)

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 3rd, 2008

Can fence be built without immigrants? – Can the U.S. border fence be built on deadline without the help of foreign laborers? – (doubt it)

Blogante News for Monday – June 2nd, 2008

‘Conscientious Projector: Photographs by Maria Teresa Fernandez’ – The Armory Center for the Arts at Pasadena exhibition focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border fence.

Wildlife coalition to file federal suit over waiving of environmental laws for border fence

Weekly Review of Blogante News

Blogante News for Thursday – May 29th, 2008

Texas cities join suit against Mexico border fence

Homeland Security Stands by Its Fence – (great graphic from the NY Times as well)

Blogante News for Monday – May 19th, 2008

Razor-sharp concertina wire installed at U.S.-Mexico border – The U.S. says its use on an eventual 5-mile stretch of existing fence is to protect agents. But critics say it disregards immigrants’ safety.

Bittersweet Reunions Span U.S. Border – on Mother’s day

Blogante News for Wednesday – May 7th, 2008

Border fence is a “racist thing,” says Brownsville mayor

McCain’s Border Dance Continues, Says Democratic National Committee

Ski towns struggle with labor crunch as immigrant crackdown continues

Blogante News for Friday – April 25th, 2008

Noted Mexican novelist scoffs at need for fences – Carlos Fuentes

Virtual fence on Mexican border deemed insufficient – $20 million prototype down the tubes

Border fence fiasco, real or virtual

Blogante News for Tuesday – April 22nd, 2008

The Importance of Challenging One Man’s Attempt to Rise Above the Law (Latina Lista)

LULAC and the Sierra Club Condemn Bush Administration’s Border Wall Waiver

Blogante News for Wednesday – April 2nd, 2008

Did You Know? The Bush administration says it’ll bypass dozens of laws to finish construction of a fence along the Mexican border.

Environmental Laws to Be Waived for Fence – Lawmaker Accuses Administration of Abusing Authority to Build Barrier at Mexican Border

Latino immigrants and their northern exposure – “Under the Same Moon” (La Misma Luna)

Blogante News for Sunday – March 9th, 2008

Protesters to march against Texas-Mexico border fence – (organized in part by teachers)

Republicans Propose New Package of Immigration Enforcement Proposals – Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

New Tactics to Control Immigration Are Unveiled – (virtual fence, tech and high fines)

Blogante News for Wednesday – February 20th, 2008

Border Fence To Bypass Property Of Wealthy Bush Donor – Dallas billionaire Ray L. Hunt

Blogante News for Tuesday – February 19th, 2008

New Revelations about Texas-Mexico Border Fence Detail Interesting Land Selection Process (Latina Lista)

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