Pushing the US-Mexico border south: United States' immigration policing throughout the Americas
Pushing the US-Mexico border south: United States' immigration policing throughout the Americas
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向南推进美墨边境：美国在整个美洲的移民警务
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2019
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N. Hiemstra
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N. Hiemstra
在过去的30年里，美国在整个拉丁美洲建立了一个复杂的架构，旨在阻止移民在抵达美国边境之前过境。本文确定了对这一跨国警务至关重要的几个组成部分。其中一个组成部分是与过境国发展安全“伙伴关系”，美国通过这些伙伴关系为阻止移民提供资金、设备和培训。另一个组成部分是国土安全部网络的大规模国际扩张，旨在探测和拦截人员和物品的非法流动。第三个组成部分要求美国通过各种手段在整个拉丁美洲和加勒比地区大幅扩张军事存在。本文认为，随着美国在时间和空间上扩展其边境警务活动，它掩盖了其在移民警务活动中的直接角色，这些活动侵犯了人权，助长了非法活动，分散了对政策失误的注意力，逃避了国际义务。
In the last 30 years, the USA has constructed a complex architecture throughout Latin America aimed at stopping migrants in transit before they reach US borders. This article identifies several components critical to this transnational policing. One component is the development of security 'partnerships' with transit countries, through which the USA provides funding, equipment, and training for migrant interdiction. Another component is a vast international expansion of Department of Homeland Security networks aimed at detecting and intercepting the illicit mobility of people and things. A third component entails the significant stretching of US military presence throughout Latin America and the Caribbean through a variety of means. This paper argues that as the USA extends its border policing activities through time and space, it conceals its direct role in migration policing activities that violate human rights and fuel illicit activities, distracts from policy failures, and evades international obligations.