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Blockading the Border and Human Rights : The el Paso Operation That Remade Immigration Enforcement by Timothy J. Dunn (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN-100292719019
ISBN-139780292719019
eBay Product ID (ePID)71718918
Product Key Features
Book TitleBlockading the Border and Human Rights : the El Paso Operation That Remade Immigration Enforcement
Number of Pages313 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Security (National & International)
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorTimothy J. Dunn
Book SeriesInter-America Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2008-033294
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal325.764/96
Table Of ContentPreface and AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Bowie Lawsuit Challenge to the El Paso Border PatrolChapter 3: Operation Blockade/Hold-the-Line: The Border Patrol Reasserts ControlChapter 4: The Border Wall CampaignChapter 5: Human Rights Issues and the El Paso Border PatrolChapter 6: Into the New Century: Continuity, Change, and the Return of Old ProblemsChapter 7: ConclusionEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
SynopsisThe first book-length study of Operation Blockade and its impact on human rights in the border region, 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 Jurez--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. 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. 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. Throughout the book, Dunn filters his research and fieldwork through two competing lenses, human rights versus the rights of national sovereignty and citizenship.
LC Classification NumberJV7100.E57D86 2009
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