Results for keyword: illegal immigration
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The wall along our southern border is a joke
Not only is the border fence a failure at its job; it’s also proving an environmental disaster.
by Scott Nicol, Apr 19, 2011 -
Deadly crossing
July 2010 was the second-deadliest month ever for border-crossers in southern Arizona.
by Denver Nicks, Oct 10, 2010 -
Failed State
Photojournalist Julian Cardona on living and working in Mexico's war zone.
by Cally Carswell, Mar 05, 2010 -
Charles Bowden on The War Next Door
On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile War on Drugs takes a violent toll on the poorest people.
by Charles Bowden, Mar 01, 2010 -
Brushed aside
On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the once-lucrative floral greens industry is floundering as its immigrant workers face deportation.
by Lissa James, Aug 19, 2009 -
2,000 miles of controversy
The new border wall may not be stopping all that many immigrants, but it's certainly having an impact on Southwestern wildlife.
by Ariana Brocious, Aug 10, 2009 -
The real Washington vampire story
Despite Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling books, there are no vampires in Forks, Wash. – except for the Border Patrol and immigration agents who prey on the poorest workers in the area.
by Juan Jose Bocanegra and Joe Campe, May 20, 2009 -
Garbage grows well on the border
The many thousands of illegal immigrants who pass through Arizona border towns are leaving tons of litter in their wake.
by Christina Nealson, Apr 30, 2009 -
Population’s Paul Revere?
Frosty Wooldridge sees himself as a kind of Paul Revere, tirelessly warning the West about overpopulation – especially in the form of illegal immigrants.
by Marty Durlin, May 26, 2008 -
Two weeks in the West
Greater sage grouse gets another shot at protection; Colorado River water users ratify new plan; news from around the West; a high-tech “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border runs into problems.
by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 24, 2007
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