Deportation as a Mechanism of Racial Discrimination and Social Control: Analyzing Effects of Border

The authority of the police to regulate entry and deport immigrants in the US today is very questionable given its highly unconstitutional actions and problematic enforcement methods. While in the limelight of American news and politics today, the unconstitutional and violent nature of law enforcement to dictate and act on regulations as applicable to immigration has existed throughout the 20th century. The establishment of the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the 20th century established a precedent for an unregulated police power to demonize immigrants for the purposes of racial exclusion and social control. In this paper, I explore how the Border Patrol and the INS has formed its criteria for entry and enforcement of deportation based upon a white supremacist foundation. In the first two chapters, I focus on analyzing the establishment of these two entities to understand how the federal government granted enforcement powers to regulate immigratio