Border Walls
High quality essays written by experts on immigration are presented. Essays provide an overview of immigration and border walls around the world, discuss the cases for and against a border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, trace the history border walls in other countries, notably the Great Wall of China. Major terms and definitions related to border security are also presented.
Border Walls and Border Security Around the World
The number of border walls around the world continues to grow. Iran is erecting a 700-kilometer (435 mile) wall along its border with Pakistan. India has constructed fences along...
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Overview of Controversies Related to U.S. Border Fences
Walls are among the oldest strategies for tightening borders and protecting a country's interests. Examples include the 25-foot (7.6 meter) high fortress that...
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History of Border Walls in the U.S. and Around the World
In 1986 President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), granting lawful permanent residence to 2.7 million people. Instead of ending the flow..
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Editor's Choice
'It's Our Job to Stop That Dream'.
Reason
The article focuses on the U.S. Border Patrol. According to commissioner T. J. Bonner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, attacks on Border...
'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!'.
Human Events
The author offers her opinion on the proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the country. She...
COMPARING THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO THE NORTHERN BORDER AND THE ISSUES TO BE DEALT WITH AT EACH.
Canada-United States Law Journal
Offers a comparison between the Southern Border and the Northern Border. History of the border creations; Freight movement; North/South cross-border...
Great Blunders?: The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the Proposed United States/Mexico Border Fence.
History Teacher
The article discusses and analyzes the reasons for erecting the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany, which demonstrates that...
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Border hanging tips
Better Homes & Gardens
Explains how to hang a wall covering border. Applying prepasted borders on a wall covering; Applying prepasted borders on painted walls; How to...
Creative Needlepoint Borders (Book Review)
Library Journal
Reviews the book 'Creative Needlepoint Borders,' by Maggie Wall.
Discounters draw customers to the `border'
Discount Store News
Focuses on the marketing aspect of wallpaper borders in discount stores in the United States. Advantages of wall paper borders; Trends in the...
GRILLED
Sierra
The article presents answers to questions sent in by readers regarding the border wall built on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-Mexico Border Wall
Texas International Law Journal
The article examines the human rights approach used by academics at the University of Texas in investigating the Texas-Mexico border wall project in...
The Party at the Wall
National Review
Reflects on the East and West Germans' celebrations on the opening of the Berlin Wall. Symbolism of the ending of the Cold War; Contrast between...
Quilted Chanukah wall hanging
Workbasket
Illustrates how to make a quilted Chanukah wall hanging. Materials; Finished measurements; Finishing border; Casing; Finishing.
Israel constructing security wall on Lebanese border
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: 1922 to present
JERUSALEM�(JTA) -- Israel started building a security wall along its border with Lebanon.
Everything You Need To Know About the Area That George Bush and Michael Chertoff Want To Ruin
Bulverde Standard (Canyon Lake, TX)
The author reflects on the impact of the proposed border wall in South Texas on the social and ecological structure of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
PLATE 34
Hesperia
The article presents an image of an ancient roadway bordered by retaining wall and other images of materials found in an excavation in Nemea, Greece...
Regional review: Asia
Asian Business Review
Reports on Thailand's anger over Malaysia's construction of a 300-mile wall across its border with the Thais.
Retreat to the border
National Catholic Reporter
A photograph of Father Ivan Bernal and Father Bob Carney celebrating a mass along the border wall in Nogales, Mexico is presented.
Why Build a Border Wall?
NACLA Report on the Americas
An excerpt from the book "Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel," by Reece Jones is presented.
Get Online with a Cell Phone
Macworld
Presents an excerpt from the book "Global Mobile: Connecting Without Walls, Wires, or Borders," by Fred Johnson.
The Border Wall
Cineaste
The article reviews the documentary motion picture "The Border Wall," directed by Wayne Ewing.
Border Walls Articles A-Z
- 'It's Our Job to Stop That Dream'
- 'No Drug Smuggler Left Behind!'
- 117 soldiers are buried alive in an avalanche
- 5 BORDER WALLS
- `WSJ' creates own BS list
- A 30-foot-tall thank you
- A Border Bestiary
- A new wall divides two nations
- A note from the editor
- A Wall Between Countries, A Bridge for People
- A Working Dog
- ABOUT A WALL
- Ain't No Sunshine When He's Gone
- AIR EXCHANGE DYNAMICS IN ELECTRICAL PREMISES OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
- All quiet on the eastern front? Not at Bosch
- An artist's garden
- Another brick in the wall
- Another Brick
- Another Spell of Wallitis
- Architect envisions border wall as good neighbor
- At the Mexican border
- Back in Berlin
- Barriers or Bridges?
- Border control
- Border Enforcement, Organized Crime, and Deaths of Smuggled Migrants on the United States – Mexico Border
- Border Fence Is Legitimate Self-Defense
- Border hanging tips
- Border posada
- Border Wall Breakdown
- Border Walls: An Overview
- Border Walls: Guide to Critical Analysis
- Bordering on new heights
- Borderlands of Modernity and Abandonment: The Lines within Ambos Nogales and the Tohono O�odham Nation
- Borders to cross into Manhattan?
- BROOM STREET THEATER ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS
- Build it any way
- Building a New Great Wall
- BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
- Building Walls in the Free World
- cavity, pleural
- CEILING & WALL exchange
- CHINA'S WONDERS
- Chinese nibbling at Indian border wall at Tawang reported
- Christians struggle to worship in Holy Land
- Comparison between dynamic plowing lithography and nanoindentation methods
- Computed Tomographic Diagnosis of Incarcerated Meckel's Diverticulum in a Patient with Bilateral Spigelian Hernia
- Counterpoint: Border Walls are Ineffective and Damaging to Native Ecosystems
- Country classics you can buy
- Country Risk Summary: YEMEN
- Creative Images partners with York Wallcoverings
- Creative Needlepoint Borders (Book Review)
- Cruz finding new solutions for border living
- Dancing on the Berlin Wall
- DEAD END
- Defending a Jungle Kingdom
- DEFINING AN EMPIRE
- DESPERATION AT THE BORDER
- DIE MAUER
- Discounters draw customers to the `border'
- Durham, Northumbria and the Borders
- East Germany: Back to the Wall
- El Paso County Commissioners Vote to Halt Border Wall
- Elements of design: Frames
- Environmental impacts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall
- Everything You Need To Know About the Area That George Bush and Michael Chertoff Want To Ruin
- Facing the consequences of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
- Fencing Around Privilege
- FENCING OFF TERRORISTS
- Floorcoverings
- FOWL LINE
- Freestanding wall system
- Frequencies of Free Oscillations of a Truncated Spherical Sector Covered with a Thin Elastic Spherical Shell
- From Russia, with love
- Get Online with a Cell Phone
- Ghat
- Good advice
- Great Blunders?: The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, and the Proposed United States/Mexico Border Fence
- Grijalva seeks to stop work on border wall
- GRILLED
- Hanging Around
- Hidden Behind the Wall: West German State Building and the Emergence of the Iron Curtain
- High road mortality of Dolichophis caspius in southern Romania. Is this a problem? What can we do?
- High School Dazzle
- HOW DEER REMEMBER THE COLD WAR
- Illusions of grandeur
- IN PHOTOS
- In the Shadow of the Wall and Separation: Everyday Life in East Jerusalem
- Introduction: The (Re)Building of the Wall in International Relations
- Israel constructing security wall on Lebanese border
- ISRAEL OKAYS 'SECURITY' WALL ON EGYPTIAN BORDER
- JEJUNAL DIVERTICULITIS MANIFESTING WITH ABDOMINAL WALL ABSCESS
- Judging the Past: The Prosecution of East German Border Guards and the GDR Chain of Command
- KAREN LINKE. NACHT. CHANTIERS DE BERLIN
- La mitolog�a fronteriza: Turner y Ia modernidad
- Land of Immigrants, Building a Fence: The U.S./Mexico Border Fence, the Berlin Wall, and the Making of the Other
- LEBANON-EGYPT
- Lessons from the Berlin Wall
- Life Against the Wall
- London Luminary: Ornamenta's Jane Gordon Clark
- London Roads
- Maimana
- Malaysia a country in a big hurry
- Mary Jean Thompson
- MEASURING THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
- Meltdown
- Mexican Border Crossers: The Mexican Body in Immigration Discourse
- Mexican crisis prompts exodus to the border
- Monkshood is a perennial
- Myrtus
- No More Borders
- Northern Ireland and England: The Troubles/Korea Divided: The 38th Parallel and the Demilitarized Zone/The Great Wall of China
- Notes on Border Walls and Cultural Exchange: From conversations with Wendy Kenin
- off the wall
- Old Westbury Gardens
- Oliver Stone on Wall Street, Gordon Gekko, and Hugo Ch�vez
- On building walls or opening doors
- On the Fence
- One wall falls, others rise
- Our Wall
- Out of Sorrow, Celebration -- A Divided City Reunites After Israel's Withdrawal
- PALESTINIANS-GAZA
- Pantoum: Song of a Borderland
- Parting the waters
- Perennial Pleasures
- Placing its SOHO SKYLINE LOFT in direct dialogue with N.Y.C. views, Dean/Wolf crafts an interior landscape in concrete, steel, maple, and glass
- Plant combinations for dazzling effects
- PLATE 34
- Point: A Wall is the Best Way to Protect the U.S. Border
- Politics of exclusion
- Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention post-1989
- Postcard: Gaza
- Powder room redos
- Products on Parade
- Quilted Chanukah wall hanging
- Regional review: Asia
- Retreat to the border
- RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT
- Riverdale, Giordano in license deal
- ROMAN FRONTIERS
- ROMAN LEGACY
- Scalamadre offers imports
- SEALING THE BORDER
- Seeking Breaches in the Wall: An International Human Rights Law Challenge to the Texas-Mexico Border Wall
- Severe coronary luminal narrowing ascribed to aortic intramural haematoma after valve surgery
- Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Challenge to U.S. Border Fence
- Tear Down This Wall
- The (no-) Wall: Hostile space vs. Neutral place
- THE AMERICAN WALL
- The best of the self-seeders
- The Border Fence, Immigration Policy, and the Obama Administration
- The Border Wall
- The Border: Funneling Migrants to Their Doom
- The carve-up continues
- The Double Task of the East German Border Guards: Policing the Border and Military Functions
- The Environmental Impacts of a Border Fence
- The Great Red Wall
- The Great Wall of China
- The Iron Canvas
- The iron wall in Gaza
- The mouth-organ man, defending the colonel, blindfolding the shoppers, dogs vs. shoes, etc
- THE NEO-COLORISTS
- The Orientation and Localization of Cortical Microtubules in Differentiating Conifer Tracheids during Cell Expansion
- The Party at the Wall
- The Price of Freedom
- The Rabbi, the Priest, the Imam and Egypt's Steel Wall
- The Road from 1989
- The sociable nasturtium
- The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe
- THE WALL AROUND THE WEST: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe
- The Wall Triumphant
- The Wall: Documenting the environmental and social impact at the border
- Things to do this week
- THIS WEEK'S JOB
- Time for a Wall
- Time for the disgruntled lodger to move out
- Touchable
- TRUE OVERSIGHT
- Turkey-Press Scan (6 January 2011)
- Unified Solution
- UNMAPPED BORDER: SISTER-IN-LAW IN A NURSING HOME
- Untitled
- VENDOR NEWS
- Vocal Walls, Mute Walls
- Wall Base is No Longer a Thing of the Past
- Wall Brighteners
- Wall of shame
- Wallcoverings
- Walled-Off Wildlife
- Walling In and Walling Out
- Walls and Border Art: The Politics of Art Display
- West Bank Wall: Security or Settlement?
- Who do you think will build the wall between U.S, Mexico?
- Why Build a Border Wall?
- Why We Should Remember Fall of Berlin Wall
