On AlterNet: border crossing

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "border crossing"

Canadians Take Notice, the U.S. Is Militarizing the Border

Tonda MacCharles, The Toronto Star. May 26, 2009.

More troops, more searches, more surveilance drones. The U.S. is taking Canadians' pictures as they cross the border, and their biometrics.

Will Gun-Toting Vigilante Get the Justice He Deserves?

Susy Buchanan, SPLC Intelligence Report. April 30, 2007.

Arizona rancher Roger Barnett became an anti-immigration icon by claiming to have detained 12,000 border-crossers. Then he terrorized a family of U.S. citizens.

Palestinians Stranded in Egypt

Laila El-Haddad, AlterNet. December 18, 2006.

Israel shut its last border crossing with Egypt, keeping hundreds of thousands of Palestinians stranded and penned like cattle, unable to move freely in and out of their own land.