Creating Preemptive Suspects: National Security, Border Defense, and Immigration Policy, 1980–Present. (November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stephen, Lynn
• Other Names: Leddy George guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Latin American perspectives. Volume 45:Number 6(2018:Nov.)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 25
• Publication Date: 2018-11
• Subjects: Mexico -- Central America -- National security -- Immigration -- Asylum; Latin America -- Economic policy -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 320.98
• DOI: 10.1177/0094582X17699907
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0094-582X

Abstract

Analysis of U.S. immigration, border defense, and national security policies and their impact on individuals, families, and communities from Mexico and Central America who have migrated or fled to the United States as refugees since the mid-1980s suggests that through immigration programs such as Prevention through Deterrence, the United States has crafted a set of policies that creates "preemptive suspects"—categories of people from Central America and Mexico that may be systematically excluded as dangerous, criminal, undeserving, and less valuable than U.S. citizens. Un análisis de las políticas de inmigración, defensa fronteriza y seguridad nacional y su impacto en individuos, familias y comunidades de México y Centroamérica que residen en los Estados Unidos como inmigrantes o refugiados desde mediados de la década de 1980 sugiere que los Estados Unidos ha creado, a través de programas migratorios como la Prevención por Disuasión, un conjunto de políticas que generan "sospechosos preventivos, " es decir, categorías de personas de América Central y México que pueden ser sistemáticamente excluidas como peligrosas, criminales, indignas y de menos valor que los ciudadanos estadunidenses.