Saturday, January 07, 2006

[USA] That Divisive Anti-Immigrant Fence / Washington Post, 6 Jan 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010600544.html
Marcela Sanchez
"When the House of Representatives passed the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act last month, it bowed to the narrowest possible thinking on immigration. The bill, one of the harshest in decades, would fund the building of nearly 700 miles of new high-tech fences along the U.S.-Mexico border and make illegal immigration a felony. Any U.S. citizen found driving an immigrant anywhere -- even to a hospital or school -- could be arrested as an 'alien smuggler' if the immigrant were determined to be here illegally."