Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico BoundaryBy 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of migrants entered the U.S. nightly. In response, the INS launched "Operation Gatekeeper," the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's unprecedented effort to "regain control" of our borders. In Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins details the administration's dramatic overhaul of the San Diego-Tijauna border-the busiest land crossing in the world-adding miles of new fence and hundreds of trained agents. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The Creation of the USMexico Boundary and the Remaking of the United States and Mexico in the Border Region | 12 |
3 Local Context and the Creation of Difference in the Border Region | 32 |
4 The Bounding of the United States and the Emergence of Operation Gatekeeper | 50 |
The Other as Threat and the Rise of The Boundary as the Symbol of Protection | 78 |
6 The Effects and Significance of the Bounding of the United States | 102 |
7 Nationalism the Territorial State and the Construction of BoundaryRelated Identities | 125 |
Searching for Security in an Age of Intensifying Globalization | 137 |
Appendix C | 159 |
Appendix D | 160 |
Appendix E | 161 |
Appendix F | 164 |
Appendix F | 166 |
Appendix G | 168 |
Notes | 169 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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