The Elastic Frontier

7 April 2003   -   Published by In Defense of the Alien, Center for Migration Studies, New York, 2003

Concurrent with high-profile border control efforts, the United States has been busy quietly formulating and putting in place a strategy aimed at pushing migrant interdiction, detention, and deterrence into neighboring countries. These beyond-the-border efforts have led some observers to describe what they see as the southward migration of the U.S.-Mexico border, or to call the border an elastic fron tier that extends outwards in an effort to keep migrants from reaching U.S. territory.