1. Space and Exchange From problems generated by real borders To issues between the public and the private sphere

2. A 2,000 mile-long border: how can it be secured? barriers were built to fight the drug Cartels and cut down illegal immigration  + drug money possibly connected to overseas terrorism after 9/11 attacks + drug-related violence has become a scourge on the border + barriers strategically placed as deterrent to illegal immigration.

3. Which American states have a border with Mexico?

4. The Rio Grande has its source In Colorado and flows into the Gulf of Mexico

5. A do- or-die situation: swimming across the Rio Grande or wading across a canal? Wetbacks protect their clothes in water-proof plastic trash bags.

7. A revealing slip of the tongue?

8. Tom Toles – American Cartoonist, cartoon published in the Washington Post Sanity / Somebody yelled either ‘’higher’’ or ‘’wager’’

9. Climbing up the fence – shameful wall or desperate protection?

10. Tijuana/ San Diego: Sister cities but not on the beach…

11. G.O.P = Grand Old Party / slur= insult, calumny

12. Defraud = escroquer

13. Illegal Immigration was among the hot-button issues of the presidential campaign

14. Cf article from blog by B.Knickerbocker (staff writer Christian Science Monitor)= Anti-immigrant sentiments fuel KKK resurgence. / caricature about Arizona SB 1070(law)

16. Nicknamed La Migra in slang Border patrols are part of the new reinforced Homeland Security Act passed in 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 events.

17. Cf notes about Maquiladoras – movements of population:Space/Exchange and the plight of Mexican women who work in maquiladoras.

19. Space/Exchange = Mexican-American war 1848  how History shapes borders On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that his administration would stop deporting young illegal aliens who match certain criteria previously proposed under the DREAM ACT. Barack Obama

20. A Coyote is a smuggler facilitating the entry of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border into the USA. They are well-organized and use technological means to ply their trade. Fake iPhone App Stirs Up Some Controversy BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue October 27th, 2009 Immigration iphone LawFirms scamAlexander VaughnImmigrationiphoneLawFirmsscam