![]() ![]() Although Operation Hold the Line was ostensibly designed to secure America’s border, what it did was target Juárez’ nannies and gardeners, put future undocumented immigrants at the mercy of the coyotes and the desert, planted one of the first parts of the wall on the U.S.-México border, and did little to nothing to stop the drugs from spilling into American streets. It was a dramatic change to America’s immigration policy. The descendent of Mexican immigrants, who was born in Canutillo^37, arrived in El Paso in July 1993 to launch Operation Hold the Line. The Descendent of Mexican Migrants Launches America’s Failed Immigration Policy It also launched the political career of Silvestre Reyes. Operation Hold the Line remains the cornerstone of America’s failed migration strategy of “prevention through deterrence” that created the walls along the southern border, led to the rise of racism targeting Mexicans that likely influenced Patrick Crusius to drive to El Paso and kill 22 - mostly Mexicans - in an El Paso Walmart in 2019. ![]() ![]() It also kept El Paso’s nannies and gardeners in Juárez and proved that Mexican migrants had little to do with crime in El Paso, the birthrates at the local taxpayer-funded hospital and school enrollments. What it accomplished was funnel long-term undocumented migrants to the deserts, give rise to human trafficking gangs, caused thousands of migrant deaths while doing little to nothing in controlling the borders against unlawful migrants and drugs. However, evidence demonstrates that Operation Hold the Line did little to stop undocumented immigrants from crossing the border. The official narrative about Operation Hold the Line is that it was successful in controlling America’s borders. Juárez, it was proclaimed a “success” by the El Paso media, most El Pasoans, federal officials and Reyes almost from the beginning. Although the operation that suddenly lined the U.S.-México border in El Paso with Border Patrol agents to stop undocumented immigrants from crossing the border was a shock to many in El Paso and Cd. Operation Hold the Line was launched on Septemby newly appointed border Patrol Chief Silvestre Reyes, an Hispanic Canutillo born descendent of Mexican migrants. Not only did it fail to deter undocumented migration from entering the United States, but Reyes’ operation was “successful” in one thing only - keeping El Paso’s gardeners, maids and nannies from going to work while doing nothing for keeping undocumented migrants from crossing the border.īecause immigration is a complex socio-economic and geopolitical problem that has many factors affecting it, understanding Operation Hold the Line, what it accomplished, its unintended consequences and how it remains the cornerstone of America’s failed strategy for controlling undocumented migration requires many complex explanations to understand how it led us to the national immigration discourse that continues today. It is a strategy that failed then and continues to fail to address the problem of irregular migration. The following is an in-depth analysis into Silvestre Reyes’s Operation Hold the Line that led to today’s official immigration strategy of “ prevention through deterrence”. ![]()
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