Borderlands
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2014
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Stubbs, B.
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Meanjin, 2014; 73(1):128-140
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I am on the western edge of the United States–Mexico border to understand more about the most publicised and most crossed border in the world. I want to understand how 11 million unlawful immigrants, at a conservative estimate,have passed into the United States, crossing the line in the dirt that separates the developing from the developed world. In 2012 that line saw 364,000 apprehensions along the border, a mere fraction of those who make it across—a number it is impossible to know. I want to see how one of the world’s most notorious borders handles this situation and to gain some perspective on our own frontier issues in Australia, as we deal with the hysteria surrounding refugee arrivals, with constant claims of a ‘detainee deluge’ and the thousands‘invading’ our country as boat people and asylum seekers.
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Copyright 2014 Ben Stubbs