Borders of the United States

Illegal immigrants either in the United States or making their way into the country are constantly under fire of generalizations. The goal of a generalization is to help explain why an event occurs while looking at patterns and reoccurring factors, and predict what will happen in the future. Such can be explained with the behaviors of the illegal immigrants moving through the United States and Canada. As seen in the documentary, Wetbacks, it was not the first time that many of these people had…

In How Race is Made in America author Natalia Molina introduces the concept of racial scripts which also become and overarching theme throughout the book. Racial scripts highlight the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another, even when not directly crossing paths. (Molina 2014: 6) Molina argues that the perceived position of a group is represented when its members are seen as relative to other groups through this space…

them to be able to transport narcotics such as for example "Traffickers in Quebec ride snowmobile in the winter and all-terrain vehicles in the summer, British Columbia make use of their helicopters and boats." "Indian reservations that straddle the border, allowing residents to pass freely into either country, are particularly porous. Almost 20% of narcotics that are smuggled from Canada pass through Mohawk Reservation and the main reason is these types of location were not secured which give…

book, Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States, discusses how law constructs borders through creating a legal place for the other. The author primarily studies and writes within the areas of 19th and 20th century legal history, as she continues to present in this book. Barbara’s purpose for this book is to provide an educational foundation of historical policies and legal practices for why racism and discrimination is so present in the United States today.…

lasting effects on their culture. It also affected Native culture in a big way, stopping them from forming a unified government and stopping the expansion of Britain and the United Sates. The impact on border relations is still present to this day as Canada and the United States of America share the longest demilitarized border in the world (War of 1812). The effect that the War of 1812 had on Canadian nationalism and identity was substantial. With people in the colony who did yet see…

violence that is happening at the Mexican-American border is one of those problems that will just continue to grow if not addressed properly. Frey (2013) states that “Fatal shootings by Border Patrol agents were once a rarity… Even more rare were incidents of Border Patrol agents shooting Mexicans on their own side of the border” ( p. 28). Now, “[o]f the nineteen cases we have uncovered over the past two years in which people died at the hands of Border Patrol agents- six (were) on Mexican soil”…

The Atlantic, Pacific, and Artic Ocean meet three of the country’s borders. The fourth being the United States of America. The United States borders Canada on its Alaskan border in the northwestern region of the country and the southern border along the continental United States. Canada has an economic standing that is strongly influenced by its shared border with the United States and its diverse trade agreement with the United States. Their militaristic value defines their domestic defenses,…

enforcement campaign to stop the Mexican people from crossing the border. Even though I have taken many History classes I cannot recall this situation being discussed, I the term “Wetback” I have heard before, but I did not have anything to relate to the term. Also, to learn that the Mexican officials actively participated in the emigration of the Mexican people to the United States and actually profited from the United States-Mexico border. How the “Great Depression was the main reason that…

Taliban started to regroup and take power again. They began by starting small attacks on motorcycles. They would set small bombs in the ground and ambush the foreign troops. They would start going bigger and the TTP would start to attack across the border. Later after they decided they had become powerful enough to start attacking bigger. Jalaluddin Haqqani became in charge of controlling the southeastern region. The Taliban would control the south. The Taliban worked out the problems with their…

trafficking is an issue that countries, internationally, have been trying to combat for centuries. Since this issue is far from new, countries have been creating ways that can tackle this issue such as stricter drug charges and sentences on local, state, and federal levels. There are other intersecting problems that make controlling drug trafficking so hard like cross-country trade, cartel control, and expedited trade and consumption of drugs. From the production to the shipment from country to…