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The Full Account: 171 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Aftermath
The present state of the U.S. southern border as the accumulation of 175 years of specific decisions — the enforcement apparatus, the asylum system, the political economy that sustains the crisis, and the question of what the policy debate looks like when the full chain is visible versus when it...
The Full Account: 170 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events
U.S. foreign policy interventions in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras from the 1950s through the 1990s and the downstream migration consequences — the deportation circuit, the emergence of the maras, and the Northern Triangle asylum-seeking migration arriving at a border system designed...
The Full Account: 169 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events
The maquiladora economy and the geography of movement — how the Border Industrialization Program of 1965 transformed the U.S.–Mexico border from a sparsely populated frontier into a densely urbanized industrial corridor, positioning millions of workers at the threshold of the United States and...
The Full Account: 168 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events
NAFTA and Mexican agricultural displacement — how the elimination of corn tariffs displaced two million subsistence farmers and transformed migration from circular seasonal labor into permanent family settlement