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Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement

Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement

Dunn, Timothy J.

Paperback

Series: Inter-America

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0292723490
ISBN13: 9780292723498
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: May 1 2009
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

To understand border enforcement and the shape it has taken, it is imperative to examine a groundbreaking Border Patrol operation begun in 1993 in El Paso, Texas, Operation Blockade. The El Paso Border Patrol designed and implemented this radical new strategy, posting 400 agents directly on the banks of the Rio Grande in highly visible positions to deter unauthorized border crossings into the urban areas of El Paso from neighboring Ciudad Juárez-a marked departure from the traditional strategy of apprehending unauthorized crossers after entry. This approach, of prevention through deterrence, became the foundation of the 1994 and 2004 National Border Patrol Strategies for the Southern Border. Politically popular overall, it has rendered unauthorized border crossing far less visible in many key urban areas. However, the real effectiveness of the strategy is debatable, at best. Its implementation has also led to a sharp rise in the number of deaths of unauthorized border crossers.

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