CLUSTER 20B Study Guide - Final Guide: Geopolitics, Racialization, Immigration Enforcement
Document Summary
The line becomes a river by francisco cantu. The issue of geopolitics concerning the area of the border was discussed and was an issue that related to conflicts of territory outside the space of the border. The territory of the border was a center of conflict for. Indigenous people, hispanic migrants and the border patrol(government). The southern border created by the us congress as discussed in the (cr) Douglas s. massey was created to stop the huge wave of immigration but instead increased it and established the illegality of immigration. So therefore it created the concept of crimmigration where being immigrant meant that you were classified as an offender. It was a center of conflict between immigrants and and the border patrol. Indigenous people as their homes were constantly invaded by immigrants and had their own separate force of officials in comparison to that of the border patrol. They were stereotyped to be drunks and lazy.
