AltWeeklies Wire
Designing Dignitynew
A San Diego architect takes on the challenge of redesigning Friendship Park, a plot of land where the United States ends and Mexico begins.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan |
12-23-2010 |
Immigration
A Defense of Liberal Claims of Racism in the Immigration Debatenew
We can’t know what’s in our adversaries’ hearts unless they make it abundantly clear, but given the facts surrounding the emotional policy issue, it’s reasonable to arrive at bigotry as a diagnosis.
San Diego CityBeat |
CityBeat Staff |
05-05-2010 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Free At Last: Immigrant Was One of Thousands Who Languish in U.S. Detentionnew
Idrisa Sesay insists he was born in Sudan and later brought to the U.S. as a teenager after he was given to another family as a slave. Immigration officials don’t believe him. They kept him in a detention center for three years, well past legal time limits set by the U.S. Supreme Court.
San Diego CityBeat |
Justin McLachlan |
12-16-2009 |
Immigration
Border Agent Who Shot Immigrant Sues Gov't Over Invasion of Privacynew
Border Patrol agent Arturo Lorenzo and his wife are suing the U.S. government, saying that releasing the video of him shooting 20-year-old Ramiro Gamez Acosta invaded Lorenzo's privacy and destroyed his reputation, exposing him and his family to death threats.
San Diego CityBeat |
Justin McLachlan |
09-16-2009 |
Immigration
Trouble Ahead on the Border?new
Push to beef up border security leaves agents poorly trained, critics say.
San Diego CityBeat |
Megan Burks |
04-02-2008 |
Immigration
Business Muscle Pushes a Third Border Crossing Forwardnew
The state Department of Transportation (Caltrans) estimates that the number of cars crossing the border has increased 80 percent in the last 10 years. That growth, combined with post-9/11, time-consuming border checks have sent wait times skyrocketing into the two- or three-hour range at peak times.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
03-26-2008 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Immigration Debate is Breeding Ground for Ugly Commentarynew
Some people think the sort of anonymous free expression one finds in online reader forums is not only unproductive -- it's also stirring up aggression.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
12-05-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Border Crossingsnew
To get to America, some people have climbed fences, hiked through deserts, lied their way past border agents or legally entered by wading through mounds of confusing paperwork -- these are the stories beneath the statistics.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan, David Rolland and Eric Wolff |
09-05-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
The Minutemen's Own Riefenstahl?new
Christie Czajkowski is more than a political activist fighting against a perceived Mexican invasion; she's the movement's videographer.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
08-15-2007 |
Immigration
