From the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty to the Secure Fence Act. Border United States-Mexico control politics
Journal title MEMORIA E RICERCA
Author/s Matteo Pretelli
Publishing Year 2012 Issue 2012/39
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 123-137 File size 139 KB
DOI 10.3280/MER2012-039008
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This essay aims to analyze U.S. policies of southern border enforcement in the 19th- and 20th-centuries, which targeted illegal crossings from Mexico onto American soil. In 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act that endorsed the costruction of a fence along 700 of the 2,000 mile long southern international boundary. This border enforcement is the aftermath of policies that especially from the 1980s onwards aim to respond to the increasing fear in U.S. public opinion relating to the presence of unauthorized migrants in the United States.
Keywords: United States, Mexico, mexican-americans; fence; border, clandestinity.
Matteo Pretelli, Dal Trattato di Guadalupe-Hidalgo al Secure Fence Act. Politiche statunitensi di controllo del confine fra Messico e Stati Uniti in "MEMORIA E RICERCA " 39/2012, pp 123-137, DOI: 10.3280/MER2012-039008