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Butikofer, Nathan R. "United States land border security policy : the national security implications of 9/11 on the "Nation of Immigrants" and free trade in North America." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03sep%5FButikofer.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Harold Trinkunas, Paul N. Stockton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-179). Also available online.

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Pulat, Halil. "A two-sided optimization of border patrol interdiction." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Jun%5FPulat.pdf.

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Koulish, Robert E., Manuel Escobedo, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, and John Robert Warren. "U.S. Immigration Authorities and Victims of Human and Civil Rights Abuses: The Border Interaction Project Study of South Tucson, Arizona, and South Texas." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219032.

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Ordonez, Karina J. "Modeling the U.S. border patrol Tucson sector for the deployment and operations of border security forces." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2978.

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Illegal cross-border activity is a severe homeland defense and security problem along the international Southwest border. The issue of illegal human smuggling is not new to the United States-Mexico border or to law enforcement agencies; however, the phenomenon is rising and human smugglers are adjusting to law enforcement tactics. This thesis has three objectives. First, it describes and identifies the fundamental dimensions of U.S. Border Patrol operations in the busiest, most vulnerable section of the border. Second, it integrates prominent border security factors into a mathematical predictive model -- the Arizona-Sonora Border (ASB) Model * that provides an illustration of possible border security operational strategies and the outcome apprehension probability of migrants given the implementation of various operational strategies. Last, this thesis seeks to provide a comprehensive picture of the complex dynamics along the USBP Tucson Sector. This picture highlights the primary challenges facing policymakers in developing innovative policies that will minimize illegal cross-border activity and secure the homeland.
Southwest Border Specialist, Arizona Office of Homeland Security

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Luna, Brandon Salvador. "Race, immigration law, and the U.S.-Mexico border a history of the border patrol and the Mexican-origin population in the Southwest /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1457321.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed November 5, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-149).

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Biesman-Simons, Catalina J. "Space, Power, Policy, and the Creation of the “Illegal” Migrant at the United States Boundary with Mexico." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1305.

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This thesis discusses the relationship between space (physical and figurative) and sovereign power, with respect to the history of the United States' immigration and boundary policy. It examines spatial organization as a social product, and simultaneously a producer of mainstream associations of illegal activity at the border with Mexico. It begins with a brief introduction to a spatially informed analytical framework, a history of relevant United States' immigration policy. The paper then uses newspaper coverage from the 1970s and 1980s to examine the local and national rise of xenophobia in the United States, and the normalization of boundary control and associated illegality. The socio-spatial evaluation of federal policy and public sentiment culminates with a discussion of the border policies developed by the United States Border Patrol in the early 1990s. The strategy introduced focused on preventing immigration by deterring migrants from the attempt. This plan was necessarily spatial in nature as it sought to displace migrants from ideal crossing spaces to sites vulnerable to capture by the Border Patrol. Ultimately, the history of the United States boundary with Mexico demonstrates the power of controlling a territory, and controlling a social narrative.

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O'Leary, Anna Ochoa. "Mujeres en el Cruce: Mapping Family Separation/Reunification at a Time of Border (In)Security." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219214.

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In this paper I discuss some of the findings in my study of the encounters between female migrants and immigration enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border. An objective of the research is to ascertain a more accurate picture of women temporarily suspended in the “intersection” of diametrically opposed processes: immigration enforcement and transnational mobility. Of the many issues that have emerged from this research, family separation is most palpable. This suggests a deeply entrenched relationship between immigration enforcement and the transnationalization of family ties. While this relationship may at first not be obvious, women’s accounts of family separation and family reunification show how, in reconciling these contradictory tendencies, migrant mobility is strengthened, which in turn challenges enforcement measures. In this way, the intersection not only sheds light on how opposing forces (enforcement and mobility) converge but also how each is contingent on the other. This analysis is possible in part through the use of a conceptual intersection of diametrically opposed forces, border enforcement and transnational movement, and thus proves useful in examining the transformative nature of globalized spaces.

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Medrano, Estevan. "On the Fence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799492/.

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Living the vast majority of my life in an area that celebrates diversity but thrives because of illegal cross-border activities (undocumented workers, drug imports) at times the distance between the United States and Mexico is in fact as thin as the width of a fence. Though it is typical for a filmmaker to hope to present a unique take on a subject, given how I have seen the topics of immigration and the perspective of the purpose of homeland security portray, I am confident that there is an opportunity to show these issues in a more personal, less aggressive light with the use of first person accounts instead of a dependence on the most violent aspects of these topics. The main subject will give character to this agency by blurring the lines of his life as an agent and as a citizen.

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Blackburn, John D. (John Daniel). "United States-Mexican border zone." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291812.

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The regulation of people and products moving between the United States and Mexico, most visible along their 2,000 mile-long boundary, also depends on the complementary function of a series of border zones. Located adjacent to the boundary, they form part of each country's administrative attempts to balance national interests and the particular needs of the border area. The boundary, limit of national sovereignty, allows a certain degree of interaction; border zones, while broadening the area of contact, impose some limitations upon it. The form and function of border zones have varied over time, just as administration of the boundary has adjusted to change. Since residents of Northern new Spain met participants of American westward expansion, the two central governments have used border zones to impose restrictions on the interchange. Mexico has feared its northern neighbor's territorial ambitions and economic power. Immigration and drugs from Mexico concern the United States.

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Kabia, Victor Sylvester. "The Relationship Between Increased Police Patrols and Violent Crime Rates in Seven United States Cities." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2317.

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Large, metropolitan areas across the nation have experienced high rates of violent crime over the past 2 decades. As a consequence, law enforcement agencies have increased patrol efforts, but little is known about whether the decrease in violent crime rates was correlated to increased police patrols or to the economic variables of unemployment, inflation, level of education, unemployment compensation, and homeownership. The purpose of this non-experimental, correlational study was to examine the nature of the relationship between increased police patrols, the 5 economic variables, and violent crime rates in 7 large US cities for a 10-year period. The theoretical framework for this study was based on Paternoster's deterrence theory and Becker's economic theory of crime causation. Data were acquired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and used a sample of 114 cases of reported violent crimes for each city included in the study for the years 2000 - 2010 (n = 798). A multiple regression analysis was initially performed with inconclusive results. Spearman's correlations between each of the independent and dependent variables of violent crime indicated that all the independent variables except for homeownership had statistically significant inverse correlations with violent crime rates. The findings of this study may be used by law enforcement agencies and policy makers to develop crime prevention interventions that address those economic factors associated with violent crime, thereby promoting positive social change through creating safer communities.

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Haraguchi, Kelii H. "Three essays on Mexican migration to the United States /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8521.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-97). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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Carr, Alan. "Regional joint border commands a pathway to improving collaboration and effectiveness for border control /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Dec/09Dec%5FCarr.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.
Thesis Advisor(s): Supinski, Stanley. Second Reader: Bach, Robert. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 29, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Joint regional border commands, collaboration, border control, border security, regionalization, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-81). Also available in print.

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Wishart, Eric Gregory. "Intelligence networks and the tri border area of South America /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif., : Naval Postgraduate School, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Dec%5FWishart.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs and Civil-Military Relations)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2002.
AD-A411 244. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-93). Also available online.

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Norman, Emma Spenner. "Navigating bordered geographies : water governance along the Canada - United States border." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6348.

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This thesis investigates the rescaling of transboundary water governance across the Canada – U.S. border, focusing on three regional case studies: the Shared Waters Alliance, the Salish Sea Aboriginal Council, and the International Joint Commission Watershed Initiative. The case studies employ qualitative data drawn from interviews, participant observation, and quantitative data drawn from a comprehensive dataset that I created on transboundary water governance mechanisms over the period 1910 to the present. The analysis of the empirical material outlined above enables me to intervene in current debates over scale, governance, and borders, through mobilizing three bodies of literature: environmental governance, the politics of scale, and the social construction of borders. The resulting theoretical framework – which focuses on the rescaling of environmental governance within borderlands – contains three key conceptual claims. First, I argue that studying environmental governance at the site of the border helps to move discussions beyond a nation-state framework – challenging what Agnew refers to as the territorial trap. This is important given the nation-state focus of a significant proportion of the literature on environmental governance, an obvious over-sight considering the tendency of environmental issues (such as air and water pollution) to transcend national borders. Secondly, I argue that drawing on the “politics of scale” literature can offer new insights into processes of rescaling of environmental governance, specifically through interrogating local governance capacity in the context of devolution of environmental governance. In particular, my analysis challenges (often implicit) assumptions regarding the capacity of local actors to participate effectively in multi-scalar governance processes. Third, I argue that closer attention to borders can help refine critical assessments of transboundary environmental governance. Specifically, I suggest that all borders (even seemingly “natural” ones) are part of cultural construction and wider politics of power that help define and redefine the landscape. Pursuant to this, I explore how discursive (often-jingoistic) strategies are deployed to entrench borders – both physically and discursively. Understanding transboundary governance of water, in other words, requires close attention to the cultural politics of the border.

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Marcotte, Christina, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "8,893 kilometres of cooperation : applying Kingdon's model to the development of Canadian border security policy since 9/11." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Political Science, c2009, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2469.

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Canadian border security policies are largely shaped by the asymmetrical relationship that exists between Canada and the United States. American markets are the primary destination for over eighty percent of Canadian exports, creating an economic dependence highlighted in the days following 9/11. As wait times at the American border extended to sixteen hours the importance of the shared border came sharply into focus. To ensure Canada‟s economic security the Canadian government needed to develop policies that would satisfy the American need for physical security and the Canadian need for economic security. This thesis applies John Kingdon‟s policy streams model to demonstrate and explain the subsequent development of Canadian border security policies. It also examines the institutional context for border security policies and examines two case studies: the Container Security Initiative and NEXUS.
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Luoma, Benjamin C. "The U.S. military and security along the U.S. Mexico border evaluation of its role in the post September 11th era /." View thesis View thesis via DTIC web site, 2002. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA411150.

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Valencia, Celina I., Kacey Ernst, and Cecilia Ballesteros Rosales. "Tuberculosis Treatment Completion in a United States/Mexico Binational Context." FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625712.

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a salient public health issue along the U.S./Mexico border. This study seeks to identify the social and structural factors, which are associated with TB disease burden in the binational geographic region. Identification of barriers of treatment completion provides the necessary framework for developing evidence-based interventions that are culturally relevant and context specific for the U.S./Mexico border region. Methods: Retrospective study of data extracted from medical charts (n = 439) from Yuma County Health Department (YCHD) (n = 160) and Centro de Salud San Luis Rio Colorado (n = 279). Patients currently accessing TB treatment at either facility were excluded from the study. Chi-square, unadjusted odds ratios, and logistic regression were utilized to identify characteristics associated with successful TB treatment in this population. Findings: The study population was predominantly male (n = 327). Females were more likely to complete TB treatment (OR = 3.71). The absence of drug use and/or the absence of an HIV positive diagnosis were found to be predictors of TB treatment completion across both clinical sites. Forty-four percent (43.59%) (n = 85) TB patients treated at CDS San Luis did not complete treatment versus 40.35% (n = 49) of TB patients who did not complete treatment at YCHD. Moving from the area or being deported was the highest category (20.78%) for incomplete TB treatment in the population (n = 64) across both clinical sites.

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Fletcher, Thomas H. "Environmental justice and hazardous waste, a view from the Canada-United States border." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/NQ44430.pdf.

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Fletcher, Thomas Hobbs. "Environmental justice and hazardous waste : a view from the Canada-United States border." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34961.

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The industrial history of the Great Lakes basin has left its mark on the landscape with more than 4,500 known hazardous waste sites on both sides of the Canada-United States border. The vast majority are closed and no longer accept wastes, but they still pose potential risks to the environment and nearby communities. For the past several years, state and provincial governments have proposed new "state-of-the-art" facilities as a way to allow industries continued access to waste disposal capacity, but with far stricter controls than most older sites have provided. Publicity of contamination incidents at existing waste sites, and also the institution of formal administrative reviews and public hearings for the location of new ones, have complicated the facility siting process considerably and led to the not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) syndrome. Additionally, issues related to environmental equity and justice often arise, especially in cases where local residents are racial minorities or low-income (social equity). The problem also has a spatial dimension when one region is expected to receive wastes from, and for the benefit of, industries in other areas (spatial equity), or when a heavily industrialized community becomes slated for yet another facility (cumulative equity). Cross-boundary and local autonomy issues heighten the controversies as well. This thesis reviews ten hazardous waste siting disputes in communities on the Canada-U.S. border in terms of their environmental justice implications. In the majority of cases, opponents of new hazardous waste facilities based their concerns on spatial equity and a variety of procedural matters. Racial minority groups tended to base their arguments on cumulative equity rather than social equity. In some cases, local and regional disputes became international matters given the geographic setting along the Canada-U.S. border.

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Romo, Christine Gamez. "Mediated Representations of Latinos and the United States-Mexico Border in the Media." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194501.

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Media is used to shape the identity of a nation. It serves as a vehicle to reassure and reaffirm the dominant group's perspective and ideals in order to maintain the status quo. The media has its greatest influence on people who do not have a frame of reference to help them interpret what they see. People who have not had direct contact with the subject being presented may believe that what they are viewing is an accurate depiction. Latinos are often misrepresented on television and film and are a minority faced with constant character distortion. The stereotyping of Latinos has changed very little since the 1970's when it was first called to the attention of the United States House and Senate. This is due in part to the nation's media outlets, which are still the main visual vehicles that perpetuate these stereotypes. This dissertation examines mediated representations of Latinos and the United States-Mexico Border in films, produced in Hollywood and Mexico City, as well as U.S. network newscasts.

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Gordon, Aaron Andrew. "Spaces and geographers of the 'Smart Border" : technologies and discourses of Canada's post 911 borders." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99592.

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This study investigates Canada's border security policy, practices and technologies and the discourses in which they function, to better understand the U.S-Canadian "Smart Border" and the post-9/11 geographies of the nation-state. With the erasure of economic and military borders and the erection of new security-oriented police borders, Canada's "Smart Border" is no longer at the edges of territory but is a series of spaces reproduced in and outside of Canada through technologies such as the passport, immigration and anti-terrorism legislation, security agencies, monuments, and maps. The "Smart Border" perpetuates colonial distinctions and projects as a site of tension between the national construction of Canadian identities, policing technologies and the enforcement of a global apartheid that restricts access to political and economic resources by enforcing a regime of differential access to mobility. As a site of resistance, the "Smart Border" is also a space from which to displace colonial-national genealogies.

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Joerger, Melanie Jean. "Mortality in the United States’ border regions : a closer look at the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/23467.

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Mestrado Bolonha em Actuarial Science
The objective of this thesis is to explore the mortality trends in the United States’ border regions. Using the Center of Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database, we examine overall mortality from 1999-2019 through the calculation of standardized mortality ratios for the border region versus the non-border areas. We analyse sub-populations of the border by state, ethnicity, and cause of death, and we use varying combinations of confounders in our standardization including age, gender, and cause of death. The findings confirm significant differences between the border and non-border regions, with opposite results at each border. When accounting for all confounders, the border region at the Mexican border (SMR = 0.958) has lower mortality than the non- border region (SMR = 1.011), and at the Canada border, the border region (SMR = 1.033) has higher mortality than the non-border region (SMR = 0.985). In this manner, the county of residence and proximity to the border could be a useful contributor to mortality estimations.
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Duffy, Ryan. "Trouble along the Border: The Transformation of the U.S.-Mexican Border during the Nineteenth Century." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1374609923.

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AMARAL, ARTHUR BERNARDES DO. "THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE TRI-BORDER AREA IN UNITED STATES SECURITY AGENDA." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=13091@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
A presente pesquisa trabalha a questões da Tríplice Fronteira. Pelo termo, entendo as múltiplas dinâmicas político-históricas associadas direta ou indiretamente à suposta atuação de agentes do terrorismo internacional ou seus financiadores na região onde confluem as fronteiras de Brasil, Argentina e Paraguai. Analiso o processo de representação desta área como potencial foco de ameaça à segurança dos Estados Unidos: em outras palavras, estudo o processo de securitização da Tríplice Fronteira. Após uma breve introdução sobre esta região e os parâmetros metodológicos que orientam minha pesquisa, promovo um diálogo entre a teoria da securitização da Escola de Copenhague e a literatura da Geopolítica Crítica para pensar a articulação de discursos hegemônicos sobre a Tríplice Fronteira. Em seguida, analiso (1) a Política Externa do governo George W. Bush, (2) o relacionamento histórico entre os Estados Unidos e o fenômeno do terrorismo político e, por fim, (3) as formas de inserção da América Latina na agenda de segurança dos Estados Unidos. A aná¡lise dos discursos norte-americanos sobre a Tríplice Fronteira me permite, por fim, mapear as diferentes fases históricas do processo de representação discursiva deste espaço como um foco de ameaça e assim entender tanto os métodos quanto as formas através das quais a Tríplice Fronteira foi inserida na agenda norte-americana de Guerra ao Terror.
This research deals with the issue of the Tri-border Area. By this term, I mean the political and historical dynamics directly or indirectly related to the alleged presence of international terrorism agents or theirs sponsors in the region where the borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. I focus my attention on the process of representation of this area as a potential source of threats to the security of the United States: in other words, I analyze the process of securitization of the Tri-border Area. After a brief introduction about this region and the methodological parameters that guide my research, I promote a dialogue between the Copenhagen School's Securitization Theory and the Critical Geopolitics literature as a way of thinking about the articulation of hegemonic discourses about the Triborder Area. Then I examine (1) U.S. Foreign Policy under George W. Bush, (2) the historical relationship between the United States and the phenomenon of political terrorism and, finally, (3) the ways in which Latin America has been present in security concern of the United States. Analyzing the discourses about the Tri- border Area I map the distinct historical periods related to the discursive representation of this space as a source of threat so that I can understand both the methods and that ways by which the Tri-border area has been included in the War on Terror.

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Leyva, Yolanda Chávez. ""¿Que son los ninos?": Mexican children along the United States-Mexico border, 1880-1930." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288959.

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This dissertation is a study of Mexican children along the U.S. border from 1880 to 1930. The study explores the ways in which Mexican children were incorporated into the growing capitalist border society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period, there were demographic changes in both the United States and Mexico as children comprised an increasingly significant portion of the population. As a result of this growth, and the heightened visibility of children, both nations focused on the implications, both positive and negative, of being "nations of youth." Along the border, the fears and hopes associated with children were accentuated as a result of the already difficult ethnic relations between Mexicans and Anglo Americans and shifting international relations between Mexico and the United States. Mexican children became symbols of the tremendous socio-economic changes taking place along the border. Issues of control, which expressed themselves in the creation of institutions to monitor immigration, expanding educational and social service systems, and the rapid incorporation of Mexican children into the labor force, were hotly contested. On the U.S. side of the border Mexican children entered a highly racialized society in which Mexicans were considered inferior and useful only as low-paid workers. Yet at the precise time that the population of Mexican children was growing along the border, American society advocated a more protective stance towards children. As a consequence of these two circumstances, Mexican children played a unique role in this region. Mexican children were recruited as workers, and expected to act as adults by both employers and family. Schools sought to educate them yet the education was limited by ethnic stereotypes which dictated that Mexican children would become nothing more than low-paid, menial laborers. Mexican parents attempted to control their children, particularly in maintaining a Mexican identity and values while Americanization efforts undermined their parental authority. American nationalists viewed them with alarm, fearful that the growing numbers of Mexican children would overwhelm that Anglo American population. The Mexican government, in turn, viewed the emigration of Mexican children as a cultural and economic loss to the nation.

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Cazzaro, Ilaria <1997&gt. "The United States-Mexico border during the Nixon Administration An ambivalent degree of porosity." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20885.

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Questo lavoro tratta il confine tra Stati Uniti e Messico alla fine degli anni ’60, più precisamente durante il primo anno della presidenza Nixon (1969-1973). L’obiettivo dell’elaborato è quello di analizzare il grado di porosità del confine tra i due paesi mediante due eventi, opposti in termini di chiusura e apertura del confine, lanciati rispettivamente dai due paesi. La scelta temporale è dovuta al fatto che, nel settembre del 1969, l’amministrazione Nixon lanciò un programma, denominato Operation Intercept, con l’obiettivo di bloccare il flusso di droghe e sostanze proveniente dal Messico e di piegare il paese vicino ad essere più cooperativo nelle operazioni di contrasto alla produzione e distribuzione di droghe. Allo stesso tempo, nella seconda metà degli anni ’60, il governo messicano aveva lanciato il Border Industrialization Program, volto a industrializzare la regione del confine dal lato messicano e attirare capitale estero per sviluppare la zona sia in termini economici che industriali. L’elaborato analizza nel dettaglio i due programmi con il fine di mostrare come, a seconda delle necessità e decisioni di un dato governo, il confine possa essere usato come strumento per favorire o bloccare il flusso di persone e merci da una parte all’altra; inoltre, analizza come, in entrambi i paesi, la popolazione e i dirigenti hanno reagito ai due programmi.

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Medrano, Marlene. "Regulating sexuality on the Mexican border Ciudad Juarez, 1900-1960 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378371.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2009.
Title from home page (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 4009. Adviser: Peter F. Guardino.

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Kerr, Laura Lee. "Bondage on the Border: Slaves and Slaveholders in Tazewell County, Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626665.

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LaPier, Terrence Walter. "Real estate advisory services : growth and competition in Japan, Europe, and the United States, 1960-1990." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1996. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1429/.

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This thesis examines the international growth and diversification of real estate advisory services in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan from over a 30-year period, 1960-1990. These four countries were selected because they were the most active in cross-border direct investment during this period, and intricate economic interdependencies among them prompted the greatest advancements in innovative real estate advisory services. Economic and cultural differences and similarities among the four focal countries and their respective service professions provide the bases for evaluating the primary hypothesis: the internationalization of real estate advisory services were most efficiently and effectively achieved by firms that first built solid reputations in their home nations, and subsequently expanded into multiregional organizations by responding to the cross-border investment activities of existing and prospective multinational clients. If leading firms in the focal countries expanded in domestic markets to capitalize on the national economy's maturing real estate markets, then moved into foreign markets to capitalize on rising cross-border investment flows over the 1960-1990 period, the primary thesis raises a question about the relative significance of cross-border real estate investment to national economic conditions, generally, and to the growth of commercial real estate markets and sectoral employment in the focal countries, specifically. A secondary hypothesis, therefore, is tested to identify the relative impact of total cross-border real estate investment flows on employment levels in the commercial real estate sector in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan. This thesis also examines the several dimensions of the economy and financial system affected by domestic and foreign investment in commercial real estate assets after 1960. For example, rising worldwide commercial property investment appeared to be an important factor in the escalation of corporate real estate values, in the growth of construction industries and related services sectors, in the changes in the net worth of major financial institutions, and in the asset diversification of insurance and pension fund portfolios. As part of this trend, the growth of international business and the rise in mergers and acquisitions also elevated cross-border direct investment activity in real estate as companies expanded into foreign markets. This thesis explores the process by which property advisory services internationalized and gained an important role in the global service economy by counseling investors on the location and volume of investment activities, and thereby influencing the international flow of real estate investment funds. It also examines whether real estate advisory firms in the focal countries gained competitive advantage over the 30-year period due to the presence of two basic conditions: an international network of property professionals; and a diversified services practice--brokerage, property management, finance, facilities planning and development, and real estate sales and purchases. By reviewing national fluctuations in cross-border direct investment in real estate, and periodic changes and major episodes in the foreign expansion of real estate advisory services in the focal countries, this thesis seeks to examine specific national factors that influenced effective internationalization in domestic property services. Basic principles in economic history provide the theoretical framework concerning competitive and comparative advantages among nations and particular organizations.

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Shellabarger, Rachel Marie. "Garbage or Godsend?: Contested Meanings Among Conservation and Humanitarian Groups on the United States Border." NCSU, 2010. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12072009-223639/.

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Conservation and human rights are currently threatened by direct and indirect effects of border enforcement practices on the Arizona-Sonora border. Increased border enforcement in urban areas has pushed migrants into remote conservation areas, threatening both the vulnerable borderland ecosystems and the human migrants passing through them. This study examines responses to human and environmental impacts of border policies in the case study region of Altar Valley in southern Arizona, where migrant traffic has increased greatly as a result of the expanded border enforcement near urban centers. We use ethnographic methods to explore and understand the actions of land-management and humanitarian aid groups attempting to address the socio-ecological crises wrought by increased border enforcement, in order to look for ways to reduce the crises through a better understanding of the context. Community partners include the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, the Coronado National Forest, and the No More Deaths humanitarian aid group, all located within 25 miles of the Arizona-Sonora border. The results of this study, carried out largely during the summer of 2008, describe how the actions of land-management and humanitarian groups eventually conflicted and resulted in littering citations for the humanitarian aid volunteers who left water for migrants along trails on the wildlife refuge. The conflict was branded as an issue of conservation versus human rights. I argue that the conflict between land-management personnel and humanitarian aid volunteers arose not just from differing conservation and humanitarian goals, but from their different conceptions of problems associated with border activity and different ideas of the borderlands as a place.

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Dikmen, Iskender. "Border monitoring based on a novel PIR detection model." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FDikmen.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Geoffrey Xie "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-50). Also available online.

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Mills, Melinda. ""Who do you think you're border patrolling?" negotiating "multiracial" identities and "interracial" relationships /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08152008-181238/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Charles Gallagher, committee chair; Ralph LaRossa, Wendy Simonds, committee members. Electronic text (347 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 8, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-341).

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Gleason, Douglas Paul. "Of Circuit Riders and Circuit Courts: A Case Study of the Methodist Border Conflict in Antebellum Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626807.

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Haraguchi, Kelii H. 1980. "Three essays on Mexican migration to the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8521.

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xiii, 97 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
This dissertation consists of three essays that empirically address aspects of three common questions posed in the Mexican immigration literature: What characteristics define migrants from Mexico? How does US border-enforcement policy affect migrant behavior? What role does foreign direct investment (FDI) into Mexico play in altering incentives for migration to the United States? The first essay (Chapter II) examines selection patterns of Mexican migrants based on migration frequency. Studies of Mexican migrant selection have largely ignored its temporary and repeated nature. In particular, the literature has not appropriately distinguished between migrants that travel to the United States only once and those who migrate multiple times. I model the selection process of repeat migrants in two stages: selection into initial migration and selection into repeat migration. Allowing for unobservable differences between non-migrants, single-episode migrants and repeat migrants, I find negative selection of repeat migrants relative to non-migrants and no significant differences between the unobservable attributes of repeat and single-episode migrants. The second essay (Chapter III) addresses how border enforcement influences migrant behavior. Increases in border enforcement during the 1990s were distributed non-uniformly along the border, targeting regions believed to experience episodes of high volumes of illegal border crossings. I examine how geographic and time-series variation in annual border enforcement influences US destination choices for undocumented Mexican migrants. While increased enforcement diverts migrants to alternative crossing locations, I show that their final destinations tend to be robust to border enforcement. Thus, in terms of policy, there may be benefits to coordination in enforcement efforts across sectors. The third essay (Chapter IV) addresses the claim that Mexico-bound FDI reduces immigration to the United States by increasing employment opportunities and raising Mexican wages. I use annual, state-level FDI from 1994 to 2004 to examine how FDI flows influence US-migration propensity. FDI flows reduce the probability of migration to the United States and increase the probability of an employment change in Mexico for non-migrants. Further, FDI is found to increase the likelihood of employment changes for household heads in Mexican states bordering the United States, but not the likelihood of employment in interior states.
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Palmater, Pamela D. "In the path of our ancestors, the Aboriginal right to cross the Canada-United States border." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0015/MQ49421.pdf.

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Garrett, James M. "THE SECURITIZATION OF MIGRATION: AN ANALYSIS OF UNITED STATES BORDER SECURITY AND MIGRATION POLICY TOWARD MEXICO." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/32822.

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By examining securitization speech acts and the organizational behavior of the agencies tasked with controlling border security and immigration, this thesis will examine the consequences of security discourse on United States policies for the borderlands, the impact of escalating speech acts for the securitization of those key territories, and the limits placed upon political leaders and relevant organizations by institutional forces. Specifically, this thesis will examine the implementation and consequences of guest-worker programs between the United States and Mexico during World War I and World War II. In addition, this thesis will examine how organizational behavior shaped the ability of United States government agencies to implement and enforce border security and labor policy.

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Shores, Christopher. "Sources and Transport of Black Carbon at the United States-Mexico Border near San Diego-Tijuana." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76772.

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At international border areas that suffer from poor quality, assessment of pollutant sources and transport across the border is important for designing effective air quality management strategies. As part of the Cal-Mex 2010 field campaign at the US-Mexico border in San Diego and Tijuana, we measured black carbon (BC) concentrations at three locations in Mexico and one in the United States. The measurements were intended to support the following objectives: to characterize the spatial and temporal variability in BC concentrations and emissions in the border region, to identify potential source areas of BC emissions, and to characterize the cross-border transport of BC and assess its impact on local and regional air quality. BC concentrations at Parque Morelos, the campaign's supersite, averaged 2.1 ?g m?? and reached a maximum value of 55.9 ?g m??. This average value is comparable to levels in large American cities like Los Angeles and similarly sized Mexican cities like Mexicali. The maximum value occurred near midnight, and similar incidents were observed on nearly half of the overnight monitoring periods. BC and carbon monoxide (CO) were strongly correlated at the Mexican sites. The BC/CO ratio was ~3 times higher in Tijuana than in Mexico City, suggesting that gasoline-powered vehicles in Tijuana emit more BC than is typical or that diesel vehicles comprise a relatively high proportion of the vehicle fleet. Tijuana's emissions of BC are estimated to be 380-1470 metric tons yr??. BC measurements were used in conjunction with modeled wind fields to simulate forward and backward particle trajectories. Generally, BC in Tijuana appears to originate locally, as backward simulations showed transport from the US into Mexico at only one site. The majority of the trajectory analyses indicate that there is often transport from Tijuana into the US, crossing the border in a northeasterly direction to the east of San Diego-Tijuana and sometimes as far east as Imperial County at the eastern edge of California. These results suggest that any air quality management strategies considering BC should account for contributions from the border region, as BC is chemically inert in the atmosphere and can travel up to thousands of kilometers.
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Perin, Jodi R. "Educational travel for societal change: An exploration of popular education along the Mexico-United States border." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278807.

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During the past few decades, anthropologists have become increasingly interested in how different cultural frameworks come together. One opportunity to view such interactions is presented by travel seminars based on a transformative education model, which aim to educate middle-class people about conditions in economically depressed areas through travel. The task of this thesis is to examine the experiences of U.S. participant groups in one transformative education program, paying particular attention to interpersonal contact, both within groups and between them and local people, and to how participants experience the location of poverty. I argue that multiple factors play a role in terms of whether, how, and why trip participants appear to form new meanings based on their experiences. These factors include the individual's ability to empathize with the 'Other' (i.e. local people) met on the trip and previous experience in and knowledge of economically depressed areas, especially the Third World.

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Graham, Preston Don. "The True Presbyterian a case study of border state dissent during the American Civil War /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Gelsinon, Thomas. "An Exploratory Study of Bi-National News in Mexican and American Border-Area Newspapers 1977-1988." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/218871.

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Ferello, Jamie. "Thick: Re-presenting the Real." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522335976809235.

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Middaugh, Jon S. "Transnational cultural market a concept for understanding cultural transmission across the Mexico-United States border, 1920-1946 /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/j_middaugh_042110.pdf.

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Grönlund, Michelle, and Malmgren Lisalina Gideskog. "Merger Gains and Cultural Differences – For Cross- and In-border Mergers between Corporations from Sweden and the United States." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-357914.

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Previous literature has stated that few mergers are successful and many fail to meet the set expectations. This study aims to compare cross-border mergers, between corporations from Sweden and from the United States of America, with in-border mergers between Swedish corporations to explore possible differences in synergy gains. The synergy gains are proxied by abnormal returns 80 trading-days post the merger completion date. The results in this study are not statistically significant, however it indicates that cross-border mergers have a negative average cumulative abnormal return while in-border mergers have a positive average cumulative abnormal return. Therefore, this study argues that the result could be a consequence of greater cultural differences for cross-border mergers than in-border mergers and imply that in-border mergers could be the better alternative for Swedish corporations in comparison to cross-border mergers. Additionally, cultural differences should be investigated before a merger decision is taken. Future research should investigate how cultural differences affect synergy gains with a larger sample and include corporations from more nations.

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Harrison, James Richard 1959. "DESIGN OF A LONG LINE INTRUSION DETECTION SENSOR." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277170.

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Robinson, Robert Steven. "Creating foreign policy locally migratory labor and the Texas border, 1943-1952 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185814949.

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Murià, Tuñón Magalí. "Enforcing boundaries globalization, state power and the geography of cross-border consumption in Tijuana, Mexico /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3397196.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 30, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-401).

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Samtani, Akshina. "Project management in cross-border teams how do United States and India-based managers cope with cultural influences on project management /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4113.

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Colnic, David Harold. "Designing sustainability in the United States-Mexico borderlands: Policy design analysis of the Border Environment Cooperation Commission and prospects for sustainability." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289971.

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This research investigates environmental policy in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. In particular, the analysis focuses on the Border Environment Cooperation Commission's (BECC) ability to facilitate sustainability in the region. Although BECC exerts some positive effects, in general, policy design flaws combined with administrative weaknesses limit the Commission's capacity to promote sustainability. The research divides into three main sections. The first section provides an overview of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and justifies the method to analyze the region's public policy. The overview portrays boom-and-bust development pathologies that lead to social, political, economic, environmental hardships. This analysis also presents several regional characteristics--policy oriented social networks, binational institutions, and an ethic of place--that serve sustainability. The methodological overview focuses on policy design theory. According to design theory, effective public policy requires a close fit between the solution and problem contexts and the policy design. The second section evaluates the solution and problem contexts. These contextual analyses include a detailed discussion of sustainability, the problematic nature of public policy in borderlands, and specific characteristics of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Several criteria for U.S.-Mexico borderlands sustainability are developed based on these contextual analyses. The third section describes and evaluates BECC's performance. The specific focus is devoted BECC's institutional and policy designs and its major program areas. The research concludes with an overview of empirical and theoretical implications and a presentation of policy prescriptions to build BECC's capacity to facilitate sustainability.

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Thompson, Michael A. "Department of Defense involvement in homeland security the militarization of the southwestern border in the U.S. /." Quantico, VA : Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA490850.

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Dunn, Timothy J. "Immigration enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region, the El Paso case : bureaucratic power, human rights, and civic activism /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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