Operation Gatekeeper

            Imagine you were driving along a desert, and you come across a desperate mother and child dying of thirst and barely strong enough to lift their heads? Would you help them? Sure you would. Now, suppose that family were immigrants trying to enter the United States without proper documents, would that stop you from helping them? And if it did, what could be said about your humanity? This is the reality of a summer on the desert trail with its succession of grisly deaths from heat exposure and dehydration. Mexican victims have been at the prime of inhumane treatment provoked by the United States and its so-called resolution for illegal immigrants. Such inhumane enactment is initiated by the policy that disrespects human life and forces people of Mexican nationality to risk their life and struggle to come to the land of opportunity. Such distorted policy is implemented by Operation Gatekeeper. Implemented in 1994, Operation Gatekeeper has resulted in human rights violations against Mexican migrants. In order to evaluate how Operation Gatekeeper was initiated, I will begin with a synopsis of the history and political motivations leading to recent policies of the Immigration and Naturalization Service intending to seal the US-Mexico border. In such an anti-immigration political climate during the 1990's, white government officials gave birth to several "special operations- along the border including Operation Gatekeeper taking place south of San Diego, California. To illustrate the nature of its implementation, I will show the horrifying results of the strategy used in this program, specific examples of misconduct by federal agents and the fraud surrounding the alleged success of this operation.
             The two thousand mile border between the United States and Mexico between Brownsville, Texas and San Diego, California has long been a turbulent area due to the way the federal government of the United States has chosen to enforce immigration laws.