"One if by land, two if by sea, and I on the opposite shore shall be."
Immigrant smuggling: Tightened borders force immigrant smugglers to take risky ocean routes - latimes.com: "Over the last year, boatloads of illegal immigrants have been captured from San Diego to Malibu. In one case, a woman with a broken nose and a man with a broken leg were hospitalized.
As the battle over illegal immigration has increasingly shifted to the California coast, a regional task force has been formed by several agencies to combat maritime smuggling. In the next month, Kice said, a full-time patrol boat, financed by the Department of Homeland Security, will be seeking out smugglers."
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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