US emergency powers fight is beginning

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Border Security ◽  
Private Firms ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emergency Powers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The Government ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Significance Trump declared the emergency to access funding to build his campaign-pledged US-Mexico border security barrier. Impacts Trump’s base will welcome his continuing commitment to building the US-Mexico border wall. Democrats might need to offer Trump more wall-building money to avoid the risk that the courts side with him. Greater use of emergencies would destabilise policymaking; private firms would face higher risks supplying the government. Trump wants to work with Democrats on major immigration reform; success is possible but pre-2020, time and goodwill are limited.

US shutdown deal by February 15 is possible

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The Government ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Significance President Donald Trump wants to use DHS money to build a wall on the US-Mexico border to improve security and tackle crime. Yet Democrats say a wall is ineffective and ‘immoral’, partly as they disagree with Trump that there is any border crime or security crisis or emergency. This disagreement caused the longest federal government shutdown in history (35 days), which ended when Trump signed a Continuing Resolution to fund the government to midnight on February 15-16. Impacts Federal workers (but not contractors) will be fully reimbursed, benefitting consumption, and social spending will resume. Recently re-elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership acumen will be further boosted among House Democrats. Trump will likely give his State of the Union Address to Congress on February 5, where he can bolster his political capital.

US emergency powers will see deeper debate

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emergency Powers ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Significance Democrats and Republicans have not yet agreed a way out of the impasse over building a US-Mexico border wall that caused the shutdown. President Donald Trump has suggested using presidential emergency powers to build the wall. Impacts If wall-building money came from funds for natural-disaster-hit California or Puerto Rico, Republican support could suffer. Moves to ensure furloughed federal workers get back-pay on government’s re-opening will give Republicans some political cover. Democratic legislative moves to limit presidential emergency powers could gain some Republican votes. Trump would veto any bill curtailing his powers, but he is unlikely to make widespread use of emergency powers. A fight over emergency powers would likely go to the Supreme Court; it might rule for Trump.

US emergency powers debate will grow

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Emergency Powers ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Emergency Power ◽  
Wall Construction ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Significance This raises the question of US presidents’ emergency powers to manage national crises, which Trump declared on March 13. The 1976 National Emergencies Act gives him substantial scope for action, though legal disputes persist over how far presidential authority should extend in an emergency. Impacts In a second term, Trump would use emergency powers to advance US-Mexico border wall construction. Congress may legislate to define presidential emergency powers’ use better, but the president could veto changes. The Supreme Court would probably side with the president in emergency powers cases. A second Trump term could see more ‘government by emergency power’, especially with a Democratic-controlled Congress.

Collaborative Cross-Border Security Infrastructure and Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes ◽  
Douglas C. Derrick ◽  
Brent Langhals ◽  
Jay F. Nunamaker
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Security Infrastructure ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Us Mexico Border

A long-standing problem in the US-Mexico bilateral agenda is migration. Although both countries have important agreements to promote economic exchange and trade, the events of 9/11 and other acts of terrorism have increased concerns about border security. Since the US-Mexico border is one of the most important borders in the world in terms of activity, securing it without interfering with the legitimate flow of people and goods, poses an important challenge. The purpose of this paper is to propose conceptual frameworks and models to facilitate collaboration across national borders, by discussing and considering key factors for collaborative US-Mexico Border Security Infrastructure and Systems. Border security technical solutions pose an interesting domain because there are a myriad of concerns (e.g., political, economic, social and cultural) outside the technical implementation that must be deliberated and examined. In this conceptual study, unique aspects of trust, governance, information sharing, culture, and technical infrastructure are identified as the key ingredients in a cross-border collaboration effort. A bi-national organizational network appears to be an effective institutional design to develop a better understanding of the problem, as well as required policies and technologies. This approach is consistent with experiments, research, and conclusions found in the European Union.

scholarly journals Hotels' marketing mix responses at insecurity-stricken destinations: a study in the US–Mexico border

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Cruz-Milan
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Service ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Us Mexico Border

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate specific marketing mix activities and influencing factors in hotels coping with falling room demand derived from drug cartel-related risk and insecurity.Design/methodology/approachA case study research was carried out using semistructured interviews with key informants (hotel managers) in two neighboring destinations at the US–Mexico border, an area where criminal organizations' drug trafficking-related violence has impacted the hospitality industry.FindingsThe research identifies factors that are internal (market segment diversification, type of ownership, magnitude of investments) and external (tourism promotion organizations, media coverage, tourist flow volume) to the firms as they affect their marketing mix implementation.Research limitations/implicationsThe research developed a framework to better understand the use of marketing mix practices and influencing factors in criminal insecurity contexts, which could be further studied in other risk and conflict scenarios.Practical implicationsThe pricing and communication tactics are employed more intensively, while product-service and distribution channel actions are used to a lesser extent. Greater emphasis should be placed on product-service, distribution and market segment diversification.Social implicationsConsidering the positive impacts that tourism and hospitality businesses have on local communities, it is recommended that the hotel sector works together with government and industry associations to improve the safety and security at tourism destinations.Originality/valueThe research extends the extant knowledge in hospitality crisis management by investigating the full marketing mix tactics in hotels at destinations stricken by cartel-related organized crime, an understudied context in the literature.

Marginalization and health: children's asthma on the Texas‐Mexico border

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 287-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara E. Grineski
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
The State ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Social Predictors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Us Mexico Border

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate children's vulnerability to asthma and its relationship with marginalized locations. More specifically, the effects of zip code level social predictors on children's asthma and their conditionality on location in the Texas‐Mexico border region are explored. The border region is perhaps the most marginalized in the USA.Design/methodology/approachData for analysis comes from the State of Texas and the US Bureau of the Census. Negative binomial regression models are used to predict asthma hospitalizations using a set of social predictors. Then, interaction effects are used to test if social predictors are conditional on border location.FindingsWithin the state of Texas, location in a metropolitan area, location along the US‐Mexico border, percent Hispanic, percent African American and percent Native American are positive and significant predictors of asthma hospitalizations; social class is negative and significant. The effects of proportion of Hispanics who were foreign born, median year of home construction, and percent of homes with inadequate heating are conditional on a zip code's location relative to the US‐Mexico border, with the slopes being steeper in border locations. Findings in general suggest that locational and social factors intersect in marginalized places (i.e. border regions of Texas) to create vulnerability to asthma hospitalizations.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is conducted solely in the USA.Originality/valueAs sociologists continue to consider space as a factor in health inequalities, this paper demonstrates the utility of considering space as operating at more than one scale.

Trump US union speech agenda may tempt some Democrats

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Swing Voters ◽  
National Emergency ◽  
Democrats And Republicans ◽  
And Control ◽  
Us Mexico Border

Significance With split control of Congress and divergent policy priorities in many areas between Democrats and Republicans, only parts of Trump’s suggested agenda stand much chance of becoming law by January 2021, when this Congress ends. This was instead a war-fighting address: Trump gave some ‘meat’ to his core supporters while also appealing to centrist and swing voters whose support Republicans (and Democrats) need in November 2020. Impacts Trump could still declare a national emergency over the US-Mexico border, likely provoking a legal and political fight. Senate Republicans will watch Trump’s foreign policy carefully, working to redirect and control it when they feel necessary. As this Congress progresses, the Democratic caucus will face increasing pressure to stay united.

Collaborative Cross-Border Security Infrastructure and Systems

2017 ◽  
pp. 640-658
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Luna-Reyes ◽  
Douglas C. Derrick ◽  
Brent Langhals ◽  
Jay F. Nunamaker Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Design ◽  
Border Security ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Security Infrastructure ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Us Mexico Border

A long-standing problem in the US-Mexico bilateral agenda is migration. Although both countries have important agreements to promote economic exchange and trade, the events of 9/11 and other acts of terrorism have increased concerns about border security. Since the US-Mexico border is one of the most important borders in the world in terms of activity, securing it without interfering with the legitimate flow of people and goods, poses an important challenge. The purpose of this paper is to propose conceptual frameworks and models to facilitate collaboration across national borders, by discussing and considering key factors for collaborative US-Mexico Border Security Infrastructure and Systems. Border security technical solutions pose an interesting domain because there are a myriad of concerns (e.g., political, economic, social and cultural) outside the technical implementation that must be deliberated and examined. In this conceptual study, unique aspects of trust, governance, information sharing, culture, and technical infrastructure are identified as the key ingredients in a cross-border collaboration effort. A bi-national organizational network appears to be an effective institutional design to develop a better understanding of the problem, as well as required policies and technologies. This approach is consistent with experiments, research, and conclusions found in the European Union.

The Manufacturing of the US-Mexico Border Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-162
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Morales
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Us Mexico Border

This chapter illustrates the manufacturing of the US.-Mexico border crisis by providing a historical overview and a discourse analysis of contemporary US public-policies that contribute to the subjugation of the region and by extension to the vulnerability of border communities and migrants on their journey to the United States. The chapter begins with a vignette on a border patrol agent’s excessive use of force actions that resulted in the death of a Mexican youth. This tragedy is a testament of border security policies that enact state-sanctioned violence that continues to threaten the collective safety of residents on both sides of the United States—Mexico border and migrants. The chapter then discusses how the borderlands has historically been marked by conquest and violence from its creation to the present where national security policies created community insecurity. Next, the chapter discusses border-crossing-related deaths including the upward trend in these tragedies, the use of these deaths to expand anti-immigrant legislation, and concerns with migrant death statistics. Lastly, the chapter conducts a critical discourse analysis of the Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements released on January 2017 under the Trump presidency to illustrate how political rhetoric and power over the US-Mexico border are created and exacerbated the manufacturing of the border crisis.

Politics on Edge: Managing the US-Mexico Border

2006 ◽  
Vol 105 (688) ◽  
pp. 64-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Andreas
Keyword(s):  
Border Security ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Us ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation ◽  
Us Mexico Border

The politically tricky challenge is to tap heightened attention and concern over border security in a manner that promotes rather than poisons cross-border cooperation.

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