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and like, we never stop hearing about the berlin wall or the iron curtain, and how horrible and inhumane it was - never mind the fact that it was set up in a period of an intense political stand off between the united states and the soviet union, the likes of which has never existed between the united states and mexico - you know, something that could provide at least some sort of justification. and yet, despite being deadlier, larger and currently ongoing, the us-mexican border is never discussed in the same context of human suffering, mexican and latinx deaths on the border are not afforded the same humanity that european deaths along the iron curtain were and that is fucking bullshit

Twenty years ago, the United States enacted two programs nearly simultaneously that completely changed the every day life of many individuals: NAFTA and Operation Gatekeeper. The former lead to massive migration patterns that economically coerced people to move north and the latter was a large step in the militarization of the US-Mexico border. Current immigration debates are limited in scope, as they attempt to solve “the immigration problem” by merely allowing people in and completely ignoring the root reasons of migration.