Do you remember the tennis shoes designed for immigrants crossing the Mexican border with the map in the sole? Well, welcome to 2009. RaceWire reports that "[a]ctivist hacker and UC San Diego professor Ricardo Rodriguez has developed a new tool to help migrant workers safely cross over the border into the United States, the "Transborder Immigrant Tool."

Now to tag the Minutemen with a GPS locator.

Yes, yes, crossing the border illegally is wrong. But the illegality of it is clearly not stopping people. The fact is that people are dying trying to reach the United States in search of a better life. And this is precisely why we need immigration reform now. Not amnesty, but a new way for people who are looking for work to come to the USA to work, be documented without fear of abuse and compete in the job market on par with everyone else.

Joking aside, I think it's a sad commentary on the American government that we need a "Transborder Immigrant Tool." Immigration reform...Is there an app for that?

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