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	United States Mexico barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Mexico barrier is actually several separation barriers designed to prevent illegal immigration into the United States from the territory of adjacent Mexico along the U.S.-Mexico border.
		Some United States/Mexico border scholars have claimed that these operations are just a public relations ploy used to convince U.S. citizens that the border is "secure", while the economy benefits from the continuing flow of cheap labor across the border.
		The 3140 km (1,951 mile) border between the United States and Mexico traverses a variety of terrains, including urban areas and deserts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Mexico_barrier

	United States–Mexico barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some United States/Mexico border scholars have claimed that these operations are just a public relations ploy used to convince U.S. citizens that the border is "secure", while the economy benefits from the continuing flow of cheap labor across the border.
		The United States–Mexico barrier is actually several separation barriers designed to prevent illegal immigration into the United States from the territory of adjacent Mexico along the U.S.-Mexico border.
		The 3140 km (1,951 mile) border between the United States and Mexico traverses a variety of terrains, including urban areas and deserts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Mexico_barrier (455 words)

	EPA Bi-Lateral Border Programs : Bi-Lateral Border Programs
		As indicated in the present document’s title, the focus is on issues pertaining to hazardous material accidents along the inland border between the United States and Mexico.
		In order to protect human health and the environment throughout the United States, CEPPO administers programs jointly with Canada and Mexico to prepare for and prevent chemical emergencies along the northern and southern borders of the United States.
		For the United States, CEPPO depends primarily on the support of the respective EPA regions, the border states, and the local communities.
	yosemite.epa.gov /oswer/ceppoweb.nsf/content/ip-bilateral.htm (1493 words)

	Immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The number of deaths of illegal immigrants in the United States-Mexico border has been increasing on a regular, yearly basis since the middle 1990s, garnering the attention of news media and law enforcement alike.
		The deaths have caused tension between the United States and other countries, particularly Mexico, from where a majority of illegal immigrants that enter the United States through the Southwestern borders come.
		Since the middle 1990s, Border Patrol police in the United States have been dealing with the deaths of illegal immigrants, particularly in the state of Arizona.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Immigrant_deaths_along_the_U.S.-Mexico_border (600 words)

	PR: 3.32 -- 120 Bodies Found Along U.S.-Mexico Border This Year
		With both the U.S. and Mexico’s interests in mind, Fox has proposed a “sector-by-sector” approach to work visas that would begin with granting priority to bilingual teachers and nurses to fill the current short supply of professionals in those fields in the United States.
		According to Glenn Spencer, president of Voices of Citizens Together, a California-based non-profit group, the huge stream of illegal immigrants from Mexico to the United States are “importing poverty” and creating an ethnic community that is more loyal to Mexico than to the United States.
		While some understand that the United States must enforce immigration law and control its borders, others believe that the stricter policies have simply cut off the safest routes and driven Mexicans and other Latin Americans, intent on entering the U.S., to find alternate and invariably more dangerous travel options.
	www.coha.org /NEW_PRESS_RELEASES/New_Press_Releases_2003/03.32_120_Bodies_Found_Along_US-Mexican_Border_This_Year.htm (2265 words)

	Immigrant deaths along the United States Border.
		Some United States/Mexico border scholars have claimed that these operations are just a public relations ploy used to convince U.S. citizens that the border is "secure", while the economy benefits from the continuing flow of cheap labor across the border.
		The 3140 km (1,951 mile) border between the United States and Mexico traverses a variety of terrains, including urban areas and deserts.
		The United States Mexico barrier is actually several separation barriers designed to prevent illegal immigration into the United States from the territory of adjacent Mexico.
	www.visa2003.com /world-immigration/us-border.htm (1020 words)

	Lesson Plans - The United States/Mexico Border
		Ask students what their impressions are of the United States/Mexico border.
		create collages, posters, or multimedia presentations showcasing the United States/Mexico border.
		What are the arguments both for and against the current policies of the U.S. government at the Mexico/United States border?
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/13/g912/usmexico.html (485 words)

	Home
		We hope you, as an important stakeholder, discover how and why the USIBWC carries out its critical mission as America's premiere federal agency responsible for addressing technical transboundary management issues in the United States - Mexico border region.
		Established in 1889, the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) has responsibility for applying the boundary and water treaties between the United States and Mexico and settling differences that may arise out of these treaties.
		The IBWC is an international body composed of the United States Section and the Mexican Section, each headed by an Engineer-Commissioner appointed by his/her respective president.
	www.ibwc.state.gov (485 words)

	"Report on United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment from NDIC "
		Most of the marijuana consumed in Canada is produced in that country; however, marijuana smuggled into Canada from countries such as Mexico and Jamaica, some of which transits the United States, also is available.
		Most of the marijuana available in the United States is produced domestically or is imported from Mexico and Colombia.
		Although criminal groups based in Canada supply far less marijuana to the United States than their Mexican or Colombian counterparts, most of the marijuana supplied from Canada is high-grade marijuana, for which there is a growing demand in the United States.
	www.onlinepot.org /canada/canadareport.htm (1636 words)

	Andanzas al Web Latino
		BEC was created as a mechanism to establish, organize and develop technical health activities that enhance the quality of life of the people living on the border region of United States and Mexico, focused on New Mexico-Chihuahua-West Texas border.
		Content-rich site with focus on migration worldwide, but emphasis on the United States and Mexico from a variety of perspectives including documented and undocumented migration, refugees, etc. Includes official US and Mexican documents, scholarly analysis, and many original articles on the topic.
		Focus on topics related to the history and contemporary culture of northern Mexico and areas of the United States that were once part of the Spanish Empire.
	lib.nmsu.edu /subject/bord/latino.html (1636 words)

	T-REX: US-Mexico Border: RAM and HAZMAT Transport
		Agreement Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Region, signed by the United States and Mexican presidents at La Paz, Mexico, August 14, 1983.
		EPA is working with Mexico and U.S. state and local governments to protect and improve the environment of the U.S.-Mexico border area, improve our understanding of the border environment, and increase cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico in addressing priority environmental issues of the two countries, both inside and outside the border area.
		The Border Environmental Information Public Access Project is a collaborative effort among EPA, SEMARNAP, the Environmental Information Work Group of Border XXI, San Diego State University, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Information Institute (Instituto de Inform�cion Fronteriza Mexico-Estados Unidos), a nongovernmental organization in Ciudad Ju�rez.
	www.trex-center.org /hazbord.asp (1636 words)

	US Mexico Border: Historical Agreement for Health
		The United States-Mexico Border Field Office of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association (USMBHA) are beginning a new stage of cooperation.
		The work among PAHO and USMBHA on the border has been a pioneering model effort between two large countries, Mexico and the United States.
		Since then, health and environmental issues have been addressed in a very special zone: a frontier of over 3,000 kilometers long, with 13 million inhabitants in 10 Border States, 44 United States counties, and 80 Mexican municipalities.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=12755 (1636 words)

	US-Mexico Border Area, as Delineated by a Shared-Water Resources Perspective
		This map of the United States-Mexico border area, as delineated by a shared-water resources perspective, is the first product of a multi-bureau "issues team" operating under the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) sponsored U.S.-Mexico Border Field Coordinating Committee (FCC).
		Map of United States - Mexico Border Area.
		However, for describing and assessing the shared-water resources of the border region, the arbitrary delineation of the "border area" defined in the 1983 agreement is not sufficient; relevant hydrologic and hydrogeologic criteria must be used to delineate the extent of the border area.
	www.doi.gov /fcc/english/water_fs-1.html (1636 words)

	Migration Information Source - The US-Mexico Border
		Mexico is the United States' second-largest trading partner, with US$261.7 billion in two-way trade in 2000 (about US$700 million/day).
		Every day, 800,000 people arrive in the United States from Mexico.
		Three of the ten poorest counties in the United States are located in the border area.
	www.migrationinformation.com /feature/display.cfm?ID=32 (1636 words)

	Separation_barrier
		The United States has constructed a separation barrier along 130 km of its border with Mexico to prevent unauthorized immigration into the United States.
		The United Nations has constructed a demilitarized zone to stop Iraq from re-invading Kuwait; Kuwait plans to install a new separation barrier as well.
		The United Kingdom has constructed separation barriers between Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods in Belfast to contain violence between the two groups.
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Separation_barrier (1636 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Crossing 'La Linea'
		Alfonso Marcial spent eight years in prisons in Mexico and the United States.
		"Last year, close to $10 billion entered Mexico from the money migrants, living legally or illegally in the United States, sent," Alfaro said.
		Camped on the sand at Playas de Tijuana, Jose and his wife, Angela, wait for a chance to cross illegally into the United States.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/migrant/20030621-9999-border.html (3984 words)

	United States-Canada border - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The relatively low level of security measures stands in stark contrast to that of the United States-Mexico border (1/3 as long as the Canada-U.S. border), which is actively patrolled by U.S. customs and immigration personnel to prevent Mexican citizens and other illegal migrants from illegally entering the United States (see United States-Mexico barrier).
		Canada and the United States of America share the longest common border among any two countries that is not militarized or actively patrolled.
		After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, border security along the International Boundary was dramatically (and often covertly) improved by both nations in both populated and rural areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States-Canadian_border (883 words)

	United States Border Patrol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Border Patrol was founded on May 28, 1924 ; its main purpose to detect and prevent the entrance of illegal aliens into the United States of America.
		The United States Border Patrol (USBP), a Federal police force, is the mobile uniformed law enforcement arm of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security.
		The great majority of Border Patrol personnel are deployed at the US-Mexico border, where they're assigned to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._Border_Patrol (883 words)

	Rethinking History and the Nation-State: Mexico and the United States
		As the two nation-states collaborated to maintain surveillance over citizens, as Mexican politicians increasingly campaigned in the United States for local and state office in Mexico, movements for democracy, human rights, and citizenship burst across national borders and became transnational struggles.
		This struggle between individuals and nation-states enacted along the southern border of the United States dramatizes a growing challenge as national governments seem increasingly unsure how to engage the growing movement of people, to say nothing of their ideas, products, institutions, and cultures, across national borders.
		After the Mexican Revolution, Mexico and the United States seemed to present the world with two dramatically different national models — one of a nationalism born in the first twentieth-century social revolution and the other of the most resilient capitalist economy.
	www.indiana.edu /~jah/mexico/dthelen.html (883 words)

	KPBS -
		>> Karen Rostodha, Reporter: This stretch of the United States Mexico border was once a major location of illegal entry into the US.
		At age 12, Lance, her parents and 6 brothers and sisters crossed the border illegally.
		>> Karen Rostodha, Reporter: Just like this border fence separates two countries the issue of immigration is one that causes division among a lot people and while the two women you just met, Lupita and Karen, have very different perspectives about this issue they recently came together to talk about their experiences at the border.
	www.kpbs.org /fullfocus/111103_script.php (1138 words)

	Iowa Congressman Tom Latham
		Joining Congressman Latham as this month’s guest is the nation’s top expert on the topic of border security - Chief of the United States Border Patrol, David V. Aguilar.
		Border Patrol Agents have the tremendous task of protecting nearly 7,000 miles of international land border with Canada and Mexico and nearly 2,000 miles of coastal border.
		The Rio Grande City Station is one of the most active stations for narcotics interdiction along the Texas-Mexico border.
	www.tomlatham.house.gov /PAGES/PRESS05/creport/oct05.htm (772 words)

	BBC News Americas Mexican immigrants found inside truck in USA
		United States border patrol officers say they've intercepted a truck carrying more than a 120 illegal immigrants from Mexico -- many of whom were in a poor physical condition.
		Those inside said they'd paid up to a thousand dollars each to be taken to various cities in the United States.
		Thousands of Mexicans cross illegally into the United States every year.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/americas/53245.stm (204 words)

	US Mexico Border
		Addressing the health workforce issues along the United States and Mexico Border is an important component of the RCHWS mission.
		In collaboration with the HRSA district office for the South Central United States and its Border program, the Border Health Workforce Informatics Initiative has been launched.
		Studies including the New Mexico, Arizona, and California regions of the Border are being planned and will be forthcoming.
	www.uthscsa.edu /rchws/mapping.asp (204 words)

	U.S.-Mexico Border Issues: A Selected Bibliography from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Collections
		Hinkle, Stacy C. Wings over the border, the Army Air Service armed patrol of the United States-Mexico border, 1919-1921.
		Includes a Spanish-English introduction, and several essays focusing on the lives of people attempting to cross the border into the United States.
		The following materials are sources that may not necessarily focus on current U.S.-Mexico border issues, but that may provide current and historical information relevant to this subject, including information on the creation of the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
	www.sil.si.edu /silpublications/us-mexico-border-issues.htm (204 words)

	United States - Mexico
		In 1848 the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which established the border between the two nations.
		From 1852 to 1868 a combination of erosion and alosive action changed the course of the river and caused a border dispute between the United States and Mexico that was Finally settled only in 1964.
		The United States of Mexico issued a stamp in 1964 commemorating the restoration of El Chamizal (the disputed area which takes its name from a desert plant) to Mexico, and to honor President John F. Kennedy.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/usmex.htm (191 words)

	U.S.-Mexico plan seeks to cut perils along border
		While Mexican officials have criticized the United States for initiatives such as Operation Rio Grande, which provides more border enforcement in South Texas, Ambassador to the United States Jesus Reyes-Heroles said the latest effort will "protect the rights and safety of immigrants."
		Though certain border locales have previously launched public-service efforts to discourage illegal immigrants from swimming dangerous channels or trekking vast deserts, Tuesday's announcement is the first bi-national effort and the first one to be coordinated from Washington.
		SAN ANTONIO -- Acknowledging that illegal immigrants are risking their lives to get across the border, U.S. and Mexican officials Tuesday announced a plan to steer illegals away from danger, rescue them if they get into trouble and better identify them in case of death.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/98/06/17/border-crossing_2-0.html (745 words)

	Mexico: Border wall would fall - Americas - MSNBC.com
		Fox’s comments came as Mexico’s human rights commission said Tuesday it will distribute at least 70,000 maps showing highways, rescue beacons and water tanks in the Arizona desert to curb the death toll among illegal border crossers.
		The U.S. was swift in denouncing the move to hand out the maps. “We oppose in the strongest terms the publication of maps to aid those who wish to enter the United States illegally,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
		Fox’s government has pushed hard for U.S. immigration reform in favor of millions of Mexicans living and working illegally in the United States.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11021540 (653 words)

	BEYOND THE BORDER - Immigration Issues PBS
		In 1998, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that there are more immigrants - both documented and undocumented - in the United States than ever before.
		About 300,000 Mexicans come to settle permanently in the United States each year, [2] half of whom are undocumented.
		Because of increasing amounts of border patrol officers and equipment, many undocumented workers are staying longer in the U.S., unable to return to see their families for long periods of time and swelling the immigrant population.
	www.pbs.org /itvs/beyondtheborder/immigration.html (600 words)

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