No Borders and Binaries

I believe that it is paramount to see and understand an issue from another person’s perspective before casting judgments about them. Unfortunately, the most extreme anti-immigrant activists and nativists simply treat “illegal immigrants” as a homogenous case with no, and I mean no, lee-way, variations or extenuating circurmstances. It is simply “tough luck” from their [...]

On one hand, the ICE and concerned Americans are pressing for a crackdown on “illegal immigration” and on the other hand, USCIS is making legal migration from Mexico much tougher by permanently closing offices in Tijuana. Obviously, this move is contradictory to resolving the problem of “illegal immigration” into the United States.
The Sun reports:
The office [...]

Lets set aside the larger issues concerning the construction of the $49 billion border fence along U.S.-Mexico; pretend for a moment that debates over efficiency, cost, the environment, property rights, detrimental political and symbolic messages just do not exist when it comes to this mammoth task. How much sense does it make to build a wall [...]