border patrol

The ballad of Ramos and Compean The ballad of Ramos and Compean

How the anti-immigration right -- and Lou Dobbs -- turned two rogue Border Patrol agents into heroes and got Congress on their side.
By Alex Koppelman Sep 4, 2007

  • Bush commutes sentences of former Border Patrol agents

    Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who shot an unarmed drug suspect as he fled back to Mexico, then became heroes on the right, will be released from prison.
    By Alex Koppelman January 19, 2009

  • Illegal immigration: Too hot for the NFL

    Did concerns about future expansion in Latin America lead the NFL to refuse to run a recruitment ad for the Border Patrol during the Super Bowl?
    By Andrew Leonard February 14, 2007

  • High noon for immigration

    Democrats are poised to pick up a U.S. House seat in Arizona. Can Republican Randy Graf stop them by exploiting voters' fears of illegal immigrants?
    By Jim Nintzel October 2, 2006

  • The GOP begins to implode

    Bush's immigration speech was a desperate attempt to keep his delicate coalition together -- but all it did was accelerate its shattering.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 18, 2006

  • Mexican migrant women's dangerous journey

    More single Mexican women are seeking illegal entrance into the U.S., and taking huge risks along the way.
    By Page Rockwell January 10, 2006

  • Against the wall

    Homeland Security is using newfound power to wall off Tijuana from San Diego. Critics warn it will destroy protected lands and lead to the death of immigrants.
    By Eilene Zimmerman December 12, 2005

  • The angry patriot

    Enraged by illegal immigration and traumatized by 9/11, Chris Simcox convinced hundreds of volunteers to join his Minuteman Project. Their goal: Seal the border and restore their American dream.
    By Christopher Ketcham May 11, 2005

  • Schwarzenegger's latest action heroes

    The California governor salutes the April deployment of border vigilantes in Arizona.
    By Page Rockwell April 29, 2005

  • Vigilante posers

    Arizona's Minuteman Project rustles up some more publicity -- this time with a special kind of photo shoot for detainees.
    By Page Rockwell April 8, 2005

  • A right-wing run on the border

    Arizona's "Minuteman" group of border vigilantes is small potatoes, but has cooked up some big hype.
    By Page Rockwell April 5, 2005

  • Battle of wits at the border

    Homeland Security diverts some attention from terrorists to stop the more than 2 million pounds of marijuana that enters the U.S. from Canada each year.
    By Julian Borger April 5, 2005

  • Leaders chat, border vigilantes mobilize

    As Bush meets with Vicente Fox and Paul Martin, is the illegal-immigration issue about to boil over?
    By Julia Scott March 23, 2005

  • "The closest thing to modern slavery"

    The real beneficiaries of Bush's proposed new immigration laws are not the immigrants, but the corporations that exploit them.
    By Sally Denton February 19, 2004

  • Vigilante injustice

    Arizona militia members, a Colorado Republican and a national group with white supremacist ties have made a remote stretch of the Mexico border a flash point for anti-immigrant hostility.
    By Max Blumenthal May 22, 2003

  • Death in the desert

    Mexican migrants are dying at record rates as they try to cross treacherous desert into Arizona. Critics blame the U.S. government -- and they're preparing to sue.
    By James Reel July 15, 2002

  • "We're patriotic Americans because we're Mexicans"

    Along the Texas-Mexico border, Latinos dress like George Washington and forge a new American identity.
    By Gregory Rodriguez February 24, 2000

  • Home Movies by Charles Taylor

    Jack Nicholson is at his best playing a burned-out border patrol officer in a small Texas town.
    By Charles Taylor June 30, 1998
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