Library of Congress HN120.C48C538 2005 | Dewey Decimal 305.09721įrom poets to sociologists, many people who write about life on the U.S.-Mexico border use terms such as “border crossing” and “hybridity” which suggest that a unified culture-neither Mexican nor American, but an amalgamation of both-has arisen in the borderlands. Expand Descriptionīorder Identifications: Narratives of Religion, Gender, and Class on the U.S.-Mexico Border Throughout the book, Dunn filters his research and fieldwork through two competing lenses, human rights versus the rights of national sovereignty and citizenship.
Dunn particularly spotlights the human rights abuses and enforcement excesses inflicted on local Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants as well as the challenges to those abuses. Here, Dunn examines the paradigm-changing Operation Blockade and related border enforcement efforts in the El Paso region in great detail, as well as the local social and political situation that spawned the approach and has shaped it since. Its implementation has also led to a sharp rise in the number of deaths of unauthorized border crossers. However, the real effectiveness of the strategy is debatable, at best.
Politically popular overall, it has rendered unauthorized border crossing far less visible in many key urban areas.
This approach, of "prevention through deterrence," became the foundation of the 19 National Border Patrol Strategies for the Southern Border. 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.
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