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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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    forthcoming of age of a chicana on the U.S.- Mexico border in the town of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in the 1940s-60s. Norma Elia Cantú brings together narrative and the images from the family album to tell the story of her family. It blends authentic snapshots with recreated memoirs from 1880 to 1950 in the town between Monterrey, Mexico, and San Antonio, Texas. Narratives present ethnographic information concerning the nationally distributed mass media in the border region. Also they study controversial discourse

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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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    administrative data on Washington state recreational marijuana sales, which became legal in July of 2014. Data found that marijuana retailers spread across the Washington-Oregon border suffered a 41% drop in marijuana sales as a result of the new recreational marijuana market in Oregon (Hansen, Miller, Weber, 2017). Washington also borders Idaho and Canada, but these places did not have the same decline as

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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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    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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    concept of borders has become focused on the movement of people, with an increasing number of countries opting for a protectionist approach to immigration. Yet, the increasing number of casualties as a direct result of these borders calls into question the continuation of strict border control. States use borders as a defence mechanism in the hope of protecting citizens from criminals and terror. But, history has shown that borders have repeatedly caused significant human suffering. Borders are also

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    In her book, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border, Rachel St. John provides a dynamic argument that focuses not just on the physical border itself or merely how border policy came to be, but looks at the borderlands as an entire region and how Mexico too played a part in creating both the border and border enforcement. St. John describes in her various chapters the development of border towns and how both the U.S. and Mexico created not just a physical barrier, but also a

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    Politics 1(4): 175-191. This article provides multiple meanings of borders, its functions and also why it exists. Such information is beneficial for my research since it helps to give basic information about what border is. Questing how problematics borders are, this article will give a wider picture on the issues surround the borders whether they are fixed entities or fluid ones for example. Alvarez, Julia. 2004. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury The story of a political

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