The problem has deep roots from over a century ago — now it's more relevant than ever.
I grew up crossing the bridge between El Paso and Juárez and because of that, I’ve seen the borderlands change with shifting U.S. policies. So when I learned about the brutal history of Carmelita and the quarantine policy, I wasn’t entirely shocked. Racist, sexist, and xenophobic ideologies that made it possible are still very much present in U.S. institutions today.
in 1994, when all those jobs left Michigan and moved to the border, so did my dad. He married my stepmom, who is from Juárez, and I became a. I have found that the dynamic between El Paso and Juárez is a microcosm of the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico, revealing interconnections and divisions between the two countries in more extreme ways than anywhere else.
The last time I was there, my dad and I walked out toward the spot on the border where the U.S. Border Patrolin 2010, shooting from the U.S. side into Mexico. We ended up talking to the border patrol agent who worked that zone of the border. He described himself as an amateur historian, born and raised in El Paso with Mexican ancestry. We talked about the quarantine policy, the Bath Riots, and the dark history of the border.
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