Blockading the border and human rights
Subtitle: the El Paso operation that remade immigration enforcement
By: Timothy J. Dunn.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780292719019
Subjects: United States. -- Immigration Border Patrol; El Paso (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration; El Paso (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; El Paso (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Description: "An in-depth study of the groundbreaking Operation Blockade/Hold-the-Line that was initiated by the El Paso Border Patrol in September 1993, and related human-rights issues. This operation was a radical departure from previous Border Patrol enforcement--a shift in focus from apprehending unauthorized border crosses to deterring such border crossing in key urban areas and diverting potential crossers elsewhere. When Silvestre Reyes, a new, enterprising El Paso Border Patrol sector chief, aptly sized up and seized upon local conflicts over rights issues and other conditions, he fundamentally changed the unit's immigration enforcement efforts in ways that would resonate far beyond his sector"--Preface and acknowledgments, page [ix]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Bowie lawsuit challenge to the El Paso Border Patrol; title: Operation Blockade/Hold-the-Line : the Border Patrol reasserts control; title: The border wall campaign; title: Human rights issues and the El Paso Border Patrol; title: Into the new century : continuity, change, and the return of old problems; title: Conclusion.