Border communities have lower crime rates
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Crime has dropped, and the Texas side of the border apparently is now safer than the state’s larger cities. Continue Reading
Customs and Border Protection should embrace systemic reforms
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Anything short of embracing systemic police reforms would suggest our nation’s largest police force refuses to answer to anyone at a time when police departments nationwide are prioritizing trust and accountability to the communities they serve. Continue Reading
Behind border and immigration debates are real people
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My recent visit to a community cut in half by the U.S.-Mexico border served as a reminder that, despite our efforts at border “security,” we’re still connected – and that, when we debate immigration and border issues, we’re talking about real people. Continue Reading
U.S. must secure borders first, Arnold-Jones says
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To address the crisis created by Mexico’s drug war, Janice Arnold-Jones also says she will work to ensure effective drug-addiction education and treatment and enforcement of the law; her opponent in the GOP 1st Congressional District primary, Gary Smith, hasn’t responded to NMPolitics.net’s question. Continue Reading
Our right to security on our side of the border
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Are the current border defenses adequate to protect Americans? No. Can the federal government close the border? Yes if there is the will in Washington. Can New Mexico close its portion of the border? Perhaps, if there is the will in Santa Fe. Continue Reading
A Border Patrol bordering on wrong
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© 2008 by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. Defining moments are not always of our choosing. Often they appear suddenly, like last week. Because I live in Las Cruces, traveling every direction but south means I have to go through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint where I am asked my citizenship. I have gone through these checkpoints thousands of times over four decades and every time been carefully questioned as to my nationality despite the fact that, at the actual U.S. border 60 miles away, millions of illegal people have streamed across relatively unmolested because of the political policies of our leaders. Last week I was headed to Alamogordo. Continue Reading
Wilson hits Pearce over Border Patrol vote
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The fighting between the two GOP U.S. Senate candidates is continuing, with Heather Wilson attacking Steve Pearce for saying he supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents even though he voted in 2007 against such funding as a member of the U.S. House. It’s an issue on which Wilson has gone after Pearce in the past, but comments she made in an e-mail to supporters this weekend and that her campaign manager made in a Tuesday news release stepped up the rhetoric. “Congressman Pearce has given several different explanations for why he voted against funding the Border Patrol,” Wilson wrote in the e-mail. “But like his vote to mothball Cannon Air Force Base and his votes to cripple Department of Energy funding for Sandia and Los Alamos national labs, they don’t make much sense.” Her campaign manager, Chris Collins, echoed those words in the news release. “He’s talking out of both sides of his mouth,” Collins said. Continue Reading