Article Critique

Article Critique

This paper is an article review of article Immigration Policy, Border Security, and migrant deaths: an impact evaluation of life-saving efforts under the border safety initiative, written by Rob t. Guerette.

This article examines U.S.-Mexico border security in both the pre- and post-September 11th, 2001 periods. It argues for and then employs a constructivist approach to better understand the socio-political context in which the United States has formulated policy solutions for certain defined threats or risks—namely undocumented migration, drugs, and terrorism. It explains how these phenomena are treated as security issues on the border, a process that involves ...