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Border Crossing for Tourists

Small Town Takes Tourists on Simulated Border-Crossing Expedition

By Samantha Leal | 09/10/2012 - 09:45 | 0 Comments

Want to know what it's like illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border? You can experience a similar trek first-hand, for $18. El Alberto, Mexico has created a 'theme park' centered around border-crossing and has been running tours since 2004, reports the ...

Raul Castro at Jan Brewer Inauguration in January 2011

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Former Arizona Governor Held at Border Checkpoint

By Samantha Leal | 07/06/2012 - 17:00 | 0 Comments

Raul Castro, a 96-year-old former Arizona governor and U.S. diplomat, was held at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in stifling heat after his pacemaker set off a radiation sensor.

Castro, who was the first Hispanic governor of Arizona, says he wasn't mistreated, but that agents could have been more sensitive to his condition. Castro has said he...

Carlos La Madrid, murder at border

Mom Suing Border Patrol Agent for Killing Her Son

By Samantha Leal | 06/13/2012 - 14:51 | 0 Comments

Such a tragedy: a 19-year-old man, Carlos La Madrid, was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he climbed a ladder on the U.S.-Mexico border fence in southeastern Arizona on March 21, 2011. The mother, Guadalupe Guerrero, is now suing the federal government and the agent who shot her son, Lucas Tidwell, saying...

Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops

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ACLU Sues Border Patrol for Racial Profiling at the Canadian Border

By Samantha Leal | 04/30/2012 - 16:12 | 0 Comments

Border problems… at the northern border? Yep. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against the U.S. Border control after two Latinos and a black man were "unjustifiably" stopped in Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, an area close to Canada, ...