Abstract
The present chapter focuses on the border relationship between Mexico and the United States, specifically on the migrant human rights situation and how this situation reveals the discrimination that exists at this frontier and generally in the United States. In this order of ideas, this work focuses on seeking the theoretical foundations for the implementation of policies that are more favorable to immigrant Mexicans. Some are of a preventive/guarantee and others of a reactive/remedial type, all based on the understanding that everything up to now has been insufficient. Currently, this issue has gained outstanding relevance due to the threats and excessive actions that President Trump adopted at the time, and which turned into acts of xenophobia and discrimination, which deepened the social segmentation of Mexican and American families that has developed from that side of the country.
This chapter is the result of the research projects entitled The Four-Dimensional Conception of the Law for the Guarantee of Human Rights and Methodology and Paradigms of Legal Research developed with the groups Constitutional Studies Consolidated Academic Body at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México and Phronesis, linked to the Socio-Legal Research Center (CISJUC) at the Faculty of Law of Universidad Católica de Colombia, in Bogotá.
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Notes
- 1.
Panebianco (2009), p. 265.
- 2.
Celis and Aierdi (2015), p. 23.
- 3.
Palacios (2008), p. 28.
- 4.
Barou (Barou 2015), p. 5.
- 5.
Heller (1984), p. 234.
- 6.
Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (n.d.), art. 27.
- 7.
Freed from the power of the citizens, and the law, and regulations of the highest degree in subjects.
- 8.
Heller (1984).
- 9.
Dembour and Kelly (2011), p. 10.
- 10.
Johnson and Post (1996), p. 1367.
- 11.
Brown (2015), p. 173.
- 12.
Solanes Corella (2008), p. 80.
- 13.
Balibar (2003), p. 185.
- 14.
Monclús and Brandariz (2014), p. 14.
- 15.
Asensi (2004), p. 101.
- 16.
Ibid.
- 17.
It was Pope Francis who Stated “Welcome and integrate. The world model at the head is Sweden. Sweden has nine million inhabitants, 890,000 of these are new Swedes, children of migrants or migrants with Swedish citizenship (…) Integrated migrants, this is the issue, to integrate. On the other hand, when there is no integration, they become unnoticed, and I do not blame anyone, but in fact there are ghettos. Caño and Ordaz (2017), p. 4.
- 18.
Uribe and Romero (2008).
- 19.
Bolaffi (1994), p. 719.
- 20.
Castles and Miller (2003), p. 152.
- 21.
Castles and Miller (2003), Op. Cit., p. 12.
- 22.
Aleinikoff and Klusmeyer (2002), p. 23.
- 23.
Argerey Vilar (Argerey 2001), p. 30.
- 24.
Henderson (2005), p. 110.
- 25.
Sacramento (2015), p. 118.
- 26.
Balibar (2003), p. 185.
- 27.
Ibid.
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Arzate, E.U., Ávila Hernández, F.M. (2023). Borders, Migration and Human Rights: Case of the United States and Mexico. In: Endrizzi, D., Becerra, J., Del Campo, E.A.P., Cubides Cárdenas, J., Gamarra-Amaya, L.C. (eds) Frontiers – Law, Theory and Cases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13607-8_7
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