Transborder

Vice has an interview with b. a.n.g lab's Ricardo Dominguez about the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a GPS device based on a cheap cell phone that will help Mexican immigrants safely cross the border.

Boing Boing 2009

Bad Stuff: The Transborder Immigrant Tool - Using a Motorola i455 cell phone (which is under $30, available even cheaper on eBay) which includes a free GPS applet, and adding custom built and freely distributed software, Ricardo Dominguez was able to crack it and create a simple compass-like navigation system.

Friday Pix archmage 2009

Transborder Immigrant Tool helps Mexicans cross over safely

Boing Boing 2009

For the past few years you've been working on the Transborder Immigrant Tool, which sounds like it's really going to chafe the asses of millions of people -- civilians and government entities alike.

Boing Boing 2009

Once they get full knowledge of the Transborder Immigrant Tool -- and we're very transparent about it -- I'm sure they'll be quite critical.

Boing Boing 2009

Transborder, or transboundary, conservation can be loosely defined as the subset of international relations focusing on particular international borders and border regions.

Transborder conservation 2006

Transborder Search: A new perspective in law enforcement?

B2fxxx 2005

"If you think drug dealers and terrorists are much more dangerous than maids and gardeners, then we should get as many visas as possible to those people, so we can focus on the real threat," said David Shirk, director of the Transborder Institute at the University of San Diego.

NYT > Global Home By DAMIEN CAVE 2011

"If you think drug dealers and terrorists are much more dangerous than maids and gardeners, then we should get as many visas as possible to those people, so we can focus on the real threat," said David Shirk, director of the Transborder Institute at the University of San Diego.

NYT > Home Page By DAMIEN CAVE 2011

"If you think drug dealers and terrorists are much more dangerous than maids and gardeners, then we should get as many visas as possible to those people, so we can focus on the real threat," said David Shirk, director of the Transborder Institute at the University of San Diego.

The Seattle Times 2011