{"id":23066,"date":"2023-03-13T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=23066"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:41","slug":"laura-madokoro-writes-about-us-border-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2023\/laura-madokoro-writes-about-us-border-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Madokoro Writes About US Border Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Laura Madokoro Writes About US Border Politics\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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The following excerpt is from History Professor Laura Madokoro<\/a>‘s article in the Conversation, “The U.S. is playing border politics again – this time with Canada.<\/a>” The full article is available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concern is reportedly growing among some American legislators about migrants crossing into the United States from Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One recent headline intoned: \u201cU.S. Republicans are now warning: Migration from Canada is a problem<\/a>\u201d as some lawmakers have likened the apparent trend to \u201cbeing assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Republican governors started to send migrants arriving in their states to Democrat jurisdictions<\/a> in the summer of 2022, the question of border control has been a major subject of public policy discussions<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Canada, this topic gained traction when it was revealed that some American public officials have been facilitating the movement of people to the Canadian border<\/a>, particularly to the unofficial crossing at Roxham Road in Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public opinion polls<\/a>, and heated rhetoric, are politicizing an issue that shouldn\u2019t be political at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the rapid growth in the number of borders in the 19th century<\/a> and the securitization and militarization of those borders in recent years, they\u2019ve become a focal point in conversations about power and sovereignty. But they aren\u2019t the real issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borders simply offer an opportunity to score political points. In this case, it\u2019s at the expense of migrants who have the right, under international law, to seek refuge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following excerpt is from History Professor Laura Madokoro‘s article in the Conversation, “The U.S. is playing border politics again – this time with Canada.” The full article is available online. Concern is reportedly growing among some American legislators about migrants crossing into the United States from Canada. One recent headline intoned: \u201cU.S. Republicans are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23068,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions\/23068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}