Immigration Nation : America's Immigration Battle

Fault Lines investigates what happens to families torn apart by a broken immigration system in the United States.

Its not about immigrants its about the cartels. They've already killed people on our soil and its going to get worse if nothing is done.




A joint investigation by The Washington Monthly and The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute has found that over the past five years, U.S. border agents have shot across the border at least 10 times, killing a total of six Mexicans on Mexican soil. Investigative reporter John Carlos Frey tells Democracy Now! that the bipartisan immigration consensus in Washington could mean a "war zone" for the U.S.-Mexico border. "If we increase the border Patrol force by thousands more [and] increase militarization at the border, I think we'll have more incidents here," Frey says. "We're talking about dealing with immigration or immigrants in a militaristic way as opposed to in a human way... We have large U.S. cities along the U.S.-Mexico border that are becoming militarized, who have drones flying around in their backyards. They have border guards running up and down the border all over the place. We have thousands of armed-to the teeth guards that are aiming their weapons at Mexico. It feels like a war zone down there and I think it's going to get a little bit worse."