ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United States Border Patrol, North American Free Trade Agreement, Counter-Terrorism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Dana Osborne

Document Summary

September 20 week 3 - constructing the border. Washington strongly criticized mexico for being the source of cocaine, while. Ottawa did not decry the fact that the us was the primary source of cocaine, arms. Canada also supplied the states with potent weed and was an entry point for migrants. Clandestine border activity: example: cigarettes, often smuggled across canada-us border in tribal areas. Incentives for smuggling were/are significant, including cash: large differential between canadian and us taxes on cigarettes (extra cash in pockets, almost all the contraband had been exported to the us then smuggled back into. After 9/11, ackleson argues that the us-canada border experienced serious thickening , rather than thinning . Thickening of the border was been brought about by. Structural failure/issues: new connections to criminality and terror. Free flow of goods and people: breakdown of bi-and-tri-national border initiatives, unilateral us policies for border regulation.