Border enforcement

September 25, 2020

Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), and so-called self-deportation.

July 2, 2019
Todd Miller

Todd Miller examines the ever-extending reach of U.S. border enforcement in an excerpt from his book Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (out July 23 from Verso Books)

January 17, 2019

Trump’s wall is just the latest incarnation of an old fixation.

September 7, 2018

Jimmy Patiño’s Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, reveals connections between the early Chicano movement and immigrant rights today.

June 9, 2017
Todd Miller and Joe Nevins

From the print magazine: Trump’s plan to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border is just one of a growing list of actions that extend U.S. border patrol efforts far past the international boundary itself.

March 27, 2017
Patrick Timmons

How Richard Nixon’s Operation Intercept laid the foundation for decades of U.S.-Mexico border policy, including Donald Trump’s wall.

December 15, 2016

In the wake of the election, thousands of Haitians, Central Americans, and African asylum-seekers remain in limbo on the U.S.-Mexico border.

September 21, 2016

The most comprehensive study on Mexican migration yet demonstrates how the past two plus decades of increasing border enforcement have led to the opposite of intended outcomes.

September 19, 2016
Laura Weiss

The U.S. and Mexican government’s prioritization of border security over human security has had dire consequences that must be discussed at the UN Summit for Refugees and Migration.

May 19, 2016
María Luisa Rosal & Arturo J. Viscarra

Twenty five years after its founding, School of the Americas Watch expands its work to the border.

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