Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement

by Timothy J. Dunn

Book Overview

To understand border enforcement and the shape it has taken, it is imperative to examine a groundbreaking Border Patrol operation begun in 1993 in El Paso, Texas, "Operation Blockade." The El Paso Border Patrol designed and implemented this radical new strategy, posting 400 agents directly on the banks of the Rio Grande in highly visible positions to deter unauthorized border crossings into the urban areas of El Paso from neighboring Ciudad Ju...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292723490
• ISBN13: 9780292723498
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"