The New Border: Illegal Immigration’s Shifting Frontier

Sebastian Rotella
ProPublica / News Analysis
Published: Thursday 6 December 2012
The border is an expression of problems that exist far from the border.
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Chris Hedges
Truthdig / Truthdig Op-Ed
Published: Tuesday 4 December 2012
Hurricane Sandy, if you are poor, is the Katrina of the North.

Katrina, All Over Again

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Avgi Tzenis, 76, is standing in the hall of her small brick row house on Bragg Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She is dressed in a bathrobe and open-toed sandals. The hall is dark and cold. It has been dark and cold since Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast a month ago. Three feet of water and raw sewage flooded and wrecked her home.



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Chris Hedges is a weekly Truthdig columnist and a fellow at The Nation Institute. His newest book is “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.”

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Family Forced to Abandon the U.S. in Order to be Together

Beth Caldwell and Joel Medina
New America Media / News Report
Published: Tuesday 27 November 2012
The collateral consequences of rising deportation numbers – the American citizen children and spouses who are forced to choose between living in exile or living apart from their loved ones – are not yet fully understood.
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Rodrigo Ortega, 35, lives in Rosarito, Mexico with his American wife and two American-citizen children. A little over a year ago, Ortega was deported. Since then, his wife and kids have relocated to Mexico in order to be with him. 

He wishes that his kids, now 3 and 7 years old, could attend school in the U.S. He wanted to continue providing them with the kind of life they were accustomed to in California, complete with hot showers and the occasional hamburger.



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ABOUT Beth Caldwell and Joel Medina

Beth Caldwell & Joel Medina are part of a reporting team investigating the consequences of U.S. deportation policy in Mexico with support from a Soros Justice Media Fellowship. Their work can be read at http://www.lifeafterdeportation.org/

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Leaders of the nation, please show us that our entire capital hasn’t gone insane: Drop the chained CPI. Stop the austerity talk. Pass the Harkin bill.

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