Canada – United States border

Modern borders are usually not a space that is reinforced by those on either side. More times than not, the stronger faction is the one who is fortifying and continuing to increase their authority over these borders. This is evident both in physical and societal borders that are encountered everyday. In the world of borders, when the stronger side becomes evident, they have essentially free reign to control this space. Control like this are projected in different situations such as national borders and everyday society. However this isn 't always the case, for example our campus is, from my point of a view, a generally tolerant campus where no one feels the need to exert power. Borders are easy places to exert and show off power, and…

Whether it be at airports, railway stations or border crossing by car, the attempt to control the influx of people crossing is a prominent problem among western countries. Through each of these means, there’s an interaction of two concerns. First, border security understood as the many ways of controlling movement across regions. Second, racial profiling defined as the continuous pattern of being stopped by border patrols due to racial differences. On a broader sense, this ends up being a…

The New Era of Borders Adelman and Aron suggest that the establishing of fixed borders created a time in which “property rights, citizenship, and population movements” were domain of governments [1]. Fixed borders are a relatively new concept in North America, considering that indigenous groups have inhabited the land for thousands of years. Habits do not change overnight, and the implementation of borders did not immediately change the way that people acted in regards to borders. Older dynamics…

case, the border patrol’s objective history. The border enforcements between Mexico and the United States has constantly been changing throughout history, whether it is through their terms of race, class or regional background. In the book, Migra, written by Kelly Lytle Hernandez, an associate professor in the University of California Los Angeles Department of History and director of the department of Public History Initiative, argues how the personal history of Border Patrol workers came to…

everyone running at the same pace. The cold and fresh breeze brushes against my cheek shaking my body to life instead of coffee. As I run, the sun made it’s way, crawling onto the plain fields. We all cower away from the sunlight dreading it’s touch. As the sun made it’s way up, we start to slow down into a jogging pace. I look over to see Coyote, he is the leader of the group. I have heard of all kinds of stories about Coyote’s journeys to America. He is tall about six feet tall. He has broad…

when a person with the active TB sneezes or coughs. Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death among curable infectious diseases worldwide. In TB in the US-Mexico Border Region remains a serious public health problem. It is one of the most serious problems along the border; this is due to first, the abundance of low income families and expensive health care in the border area; second, the daily commute of so many people who travel in the United States for school, employment, and commerce,…

provide food since he was the first male son. He started to work in construction and at the same time making baskets, but that wasn’t enough to provide. One of the hardest decisions he had to make was leaving his family behind to come to the United States like most of the people from Mexico seeking an upgrade for a job. At age 15, he decided to plan his journey to America. He decided to go with my uncle Amador (my mom’s older brother) and with some friends instead of paying a coyote (smuggler).…

The U.S. Mexican Border If you’ve paid attention to political news, you’ve probably heard of Donald Trump’s controversial claim: we should build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The implementation of a wall on the U.S-Mexican Border is an adverse decision. Not only will this be detrimental for the financial state of America, but it could also disturb wildlife, and diplomatic relations, due to Trump’s claim regarding Mexico to pay for the wall. With the 2016 presidential election…

Social Environment/ pg. 63: the entire human environment, including interactions with others. In Mexico, I noticed that they environment is totally different compare to America. Why would I believe that? Maybe because the illegal immigrants are trying to cross our borders for many reasons. The reasons could be the following; better jobs and benefits, housing, and freedom. However, Illegal immigrants do not get what they call the American dream. They attempt to cross the border if they get…

Is a border wall worth the things migrants go through? Immigration is one of the biggest problems we face in America today. We know why people want to immigrate to America from different parts of the world. The three major factors are political, economic and social. But the things immigrants face in order to get to America is beyond To what extent, having a border wall is worth all the things migrants go through this journey? In this case, having a border wall is not worth the challenges…