LEADER 03974nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910778018803321 005 20230207230329.0 010 $a0-292-79359-6 024 7 $a10.7560/719019 035 $a(CKB)1000000000785791 035 $a(OCoLC)429918469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10309964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113191 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11131749 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113191 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10100136 035 $a(PQKB)11122411 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443409 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2103 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443409 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309964 035 $a(DE-B1597)587902 035 $a(OCoLC)1280942628 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292793590 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000785791 100 $a20080729d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlockading the border and human rights$b[electronic resource] $ethe El Paso operation that remade immigration enforcement /$fTimothy J. Dunn 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 0 $aInter-America Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71901-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The Bowie lawsuit challenge to the El Paso Border Patrol -- Operation Blockade/Hold-the-Line : the Border Patrol reasserts control -- The border wall campaign -- Human rights issues and the El Paso Border Patrol -- Into the new century : continuity, change, and the return of old problems -- Conclusion. 330 $aTo 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. 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. 606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 607 $aEl Paso (Tex.)$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aEl Paso (Tex.)$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 607 $aEl Paso (Tex.)$xEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xSocial aspects 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a325.764/96 700 $aDunn$b Timothy J.$f1961-$01583773 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778018803321 996 $aBlockading the border and human rights$93867179 997 $aUNINA