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    support each other. * What is the Fourth amendment exception as it pertains to border searches? Describe the functional equivalent of the border? Although the Fourth Amendment protects citizen rights against unlawful searches while it also identifies the specific criteria where probable cause is required, the Supreme Court supports certain circumstances where an exception to policy comes into play. The exception’s under border searches grants permission for authorities the sovereign right to stop and

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    1. Over the course of the past semester, we have discussed a number of different ways in which the colonial and, subsequently, Canadian authorities have attempted to impose their vision of public order on Indigenous peoples. Discuss two examples of this. The colonial and Canadian authorities have on many occasions, historically, and recently worked in an attempt to impose their vision of public order on Indigenous peoples or the so-called problem population. One of the multiple ways that these authorities

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    Limitless Borders limit the way we interact and feel about the world around us. Borders are a kind of protection where when it’s crossed a person may feel violated or uncomfortable. When you first meet someone are your walls put up and surrounded by electric fences and barbed wire or are the gates wide open? In my childhood, I let everyone in my life without question. In about eighth grade my insecurities made me put a cage around my thoughts and my relationships with others. I created a border in my

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    by xenophobia and hardline immigration preferences. Distaste for illegals and desire for a return to solid borders rocketed now-President Donald Trump into the White House. European elections have also been heavily influence by the anti-immigration wave (Marine le Pen, for instance, campaigned on grounds similar to those of Trump in France, and did so successfully). In general, however,

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    Border regions, as described by the political distribution of lands divided by those who inhabited them, have been a long-time source of unrepresentative and poorer health outcomes. The physical dividing lines between countries are meant to be delineations in cultures and societies that define the responsibility of governmental outreach and human services. However, for example, due to relatively unstable and uncontrolled migration along the Haiti-DR border, along with instability in border, along

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    Immigration policy and foreign policy are in many ways interlinked, as they are often used to meet goals in one another’s policy areas. Together, they are used to enhance the safety of our citizens, making this topic particularly important. Immigration is specifically linked to our foreign policy efforts with underdeveloped countries (Keely 1978). To fully understand one policy area, you must understand aspects of the other. Thus, one should consider these relationships when analyzing and evaluating

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    been a false sense of danger in people now fleeing the United States and illegally entering Canada. Communities around the Canadian border, as well as the asylum seekers, are at risk. We believe the federal government should resolve to act to stop the flow of illegal border crossing from the US border into Canada. Our 3 main reasons are: Firstly, Illegal Border Crossers deplete resources while waiting for screening when in Canada. These resources are then not available for legal refugees coming

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    Restrictions Borders are in our everyday lives. Each one of them affects different cultures, politics, and even just personal space. As you’re growing up, your experiences shape on to the borders that you end up creating to fit your needs of being comfortable with what goes on around you. While Borders are a good form of protection they are also a form of restriction. They limit the way we interact with the world around us and create emotional borders in our life that are incredibly hard to take

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    nature of what people are moving or “transing” between” (Stephen, 2007, p. 23). She elaborates that Oaxacan migrants cross ethnic, cultural, colonial, and state borders within Mexico and the U.S. along with the national border. With this definition, when discussing the transnational collective identity, taking into consideration the many borders the Oaxacan migrants cross, there is a visibility of the discrimination and racialization they face within the

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    Book Review La Linea By Julia Hager Summary In her novel La Linea, Ann Jaramillo tells the story of fifteen-year-old Miguel, who leaves his home in Mexico to illegally cross the US-Mexican border. He leaves for California, where his parents and two of his sisters have lived for the past seven years. His parents left first, in order to make money for their children to cross la linea later. Miguel and his younger sister Elena thus live with their grandmother on a rancho in the small Mexican

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