[news] Check Your Rights at the Border

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Since 1994, the U.S. enforcement strategy has been two-pronged: **criminalize the immigrants** and **militarize the borders**. The U.S. has choked off traditional urban crossing points by building double and triple walls, increased the number of agents, and introduced military technology and personnel into routine activities. This policy has made the journey more dangerous by pushing crossing points into remote, hazardous regions in desert and mountainous terrain, or into the equally dangerous underworld of human smuggling—through ports of entry as container cargo.

  


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