according to the new report by Indigenous Peoples Without Borders Alliance, UCLA Latin American Institute and the Mexico Research Center, border deaths in Pima County in southern Arizona have nearly doubled since 2019. In December 2018, the U.S. government announced Immigration Protection Protocol (MPP) is a policy that forces people to wait for an asylum hearing in Mexico.And in 2020, the Trump administration takes office. title 42, a pandemic-era policy that rapidly deports or deports border crossers. These policies have proven fatal. Between 2019 and 2022, Tohono Oodam Nation, a Native American reservation located in southern Arizona, had 67% more deaths compared to 2015-2018.
The number of bodies found in countries that have long had people crossing their borders north has increased exponentially, from an average of 49.5 (2015–18) to 82.5 (2019–22). The report also links MPPs and Title 42 to increased violence against immigrants, including robberies, disappearances, and sexual assaults, documenting it with extensive documentation. data set from human rights first“Explain how these official policies led to unprecedented violence through CBP’s immigration deportations from January 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. [ U.S. Customs and Border Protection] and by transnational criminal gangs,” the author wrote.
Out of Sight Out of Mind: Interpretive Human Rights Report on Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border Under MPP and Title 42 At the beginning of May, when the hot season begins in the desert, border crossings become more life threatening.
But the report goes far beyond that. These human rights violations are positioned within the broader economic dynamics of globalization, particularly the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Mexico (NAFTA) and Central America (CAFTA). By doing this, researchers will be able to understand why people arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border in the first place, who is crossing the border, why people are crossing the border, and what are the root causes of seizures and forfeitures. It doesn’t just provide a larger and broader context about what. But it also positions the hypermilitarized US-Mexico border as her one puzzle piece in the “economic pipeline.”
The author states:
“Workers displaced from NAFTA and CAFTA in free trade countries have become unwitting human capital for economic exploitation by pipeline operators within the regional neoliberal model. A formalized governance structure favored militarily repressing workers’ access to employment and corporate exploitation of natural resources.”
The researchers continued, “Immigration and its myriad political and human costs have become a major trade-off in Mesoamerican regional economies. migratory routes and borders.”
By viewing border policy as a business model of sorts, the report reveals the exploitative tentacles of states, corporations and organized crime. Violence against immigrants is an “investment policy” that allows this state-corporate-criminal link to extract and profit from people on the move through confiscation at home and smuggling costs across borders. Not to mention the lucrative contracts that surveillance firms receive.
In this sense, the report disputes the MPP, Title 42, and the resulting rapid mass deportation and vulnerability imposed on those who remain on the Mexican side. profit. This is an important point. Because CBP fights crime so often that it justifies its budget. But in reality, the Department of Homeland Security and its deportations are fueling deaths and violence, researchers say. And the border becomes a place where free markets, border militarization, and crime collide.
And now, as we enter the summer, we can predict that people who are now healthy will cross the border and die. will bethis is far from abnormal Out of Sight Out of Mind Clearly, violence is a predictable part of the system of large-scale border militarization and large-scale deportation.
