A discussion of a goal that makes more sense than "sealing the border," which this article says only the Soviet Union came close to doing. The article also discusses how establishing realistic access for Mexican workers to U.S. jobs will reduce the border "security problem."
Southwest Border: under “operational control?” Mexico Institute: "As the Border Patrol prepares to release fiscal-year 2010 arrest statistics, a question that emerges is whether the U.S. southwestern border is finally under “operational control.”
A Border Patrol term-of-art, “operational control” means that government agents have the “capacity to detect and respond to most, if not all, illegal crossings,” according to Ted Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations." Oct. 20, 2010, Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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