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Border Enforcement As State-Created Danger, Jenny-Brooke Condon, Lori A. Nessel
Border Enforcement As State-Created Danger, Jenny-Brooke Condon, Lori A. Nessel
St. John's Law Review
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A woman seeks refuge at the U.S. border, but U.S. officials force her to wait for her asylum hearing in Mexico where a police officer later stalks and rapes her. A father and child suffer unbearable trauma after U.S. officials separate them under a policy aimed at deterring migration. A formerly healthy family loses a loved one to the coronavirus while forced to wait at an unsanitary, makeshift tent city in Mexico after fleeing for safety to the United States. For the people impacted by U.S. border policies, the southern border is a dangerous place—it is the site of …