Fresh Look
that will nonetheless be fascinat- would risk the perilous trek any way. puts it, “those who pose some signifi-ing to border buffs, Dunn recounts From 1994 to 2007, some 4,600 border cant security risk will be intermixed
the story of Operation Blockade, a crossers died in the passage. among hundreds of thousands of la-
“drastic departure” initiated in 1993 Silvestre Reyes was elected to the bor migrants and refugees who pose
that permanently altered U. S. border House of Representatives in 1996 and no threat.” He believes the El Paso
strategy. It shifted the Border Patrol remains there today. His approach, as experience offers a “strong security
away from defensively nabbing ille- Dunn describes it, offers an instruc- rationale” for a policy to reduce illegal crossers after they had arrived, to tive comparison with that of the Bush gal immigration through “increased
a policy that used show-of-force tac- administration after it was ordered legal immigration opportunities to
tics and fences to deter illegal entry by Congress in 2006 to build nearly meet U.S. labor needs.”
in urban areas, driving migrants into 700 miles (1,127 kilometers) of border The volume edited by David C.
remote rural terrain. fence. Former Secretary Chertoff, us- Brotherton and Phi lip Kretsede -
The new strategy, conceived by ing sweeping powers that Congress mas, both sociologists, moves away
then-Border Patrol chief Silvestre bestowed, waived some 30 environ- from the border to examine “the
Reyes, won enthusiastic support in mental and other regulations, alien- shift towards an enforcement para-El Paso because it deployed border ated officials in cities all along the digm” within the United States, es-agents squarely against Mexicans Texas border, and offended Mexico. pecially as it affected Muslims and
crossing illegally, reducing the agents’ “Even many Border Patrol officers op- other non-Latino immigrants after
harassment of local Mexican-Ameri- posed the wall,” Dunn writes, “pre- September 11.
cans. Former President Bill Clinton’s ferring more agents instead.” In one article, Mark Dow, a jour-administration expanded the strat- While border enforcement has nalist, traces the legal origins of the
egy across the border. But, Dunn generally become far more effec- confinement ofsuspectedterrorists
writes, immigration officials did tive in the last 16 years, the United at the Guantánamo prison camp to
not anticipate that Mexican workers, States still confronts the overrid- the earlier treatment of Haitian ref-pushed into deserts and mountains, ing security dilemma that, as Dunn ugees and Cubans from the Mariel
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