The Full Account

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A narrative production that explores history, biography, and reported long-form storytelling through a curious and warm editorial lens.

  1. The Full Account: 164 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Origins

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 164 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Origins

    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and how the border it imposed on a pre-existing population created the legal architecture of authorized versus unauthorized crossing that every subsequent chapter of the U.S. southern border crisis inherited.

  2. The Full Account: 165 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 165 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    WWI-era Mexican labor recruitment programs (1917–1921): the United States government's first systematic effort to recruit Mexican workers across the border, establishing the recruit-then-deport pattern that every subsequent American immigration policy would inherit

  3. The Full Account: 166 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 166 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    Operation Wetback and mass deportation in 1954 — how the Eisenhower administration's military-style deportation campaign transformed immigration enforcement from an administrative function into a political instrument deployed according to labor market conditions and political pressure rather...

  4. The Full Account: 167 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 167 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    The termination of the Bracero Program in 1964 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 — how two reforms driven by labor and civil rights principles converged to close the legal migration paths from Mexico at peak volume, converting legal workers into undocumented workers and creating...

  5. The Full Account: 168 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 168 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    NAFTA and Mexican agricultural displacement — how the elimination of corn tariffs displaced two million subsistence farmers and transformed migration from circular seasonal labor into permanent family settlement

  6. The Full Account: 169 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 169 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    The maquiladora economy and the geography of movement — how the Border Industrialization Program of 1965 transformed the U.S.–Mexico border from a sparsely populated frontier into a densely urbanized industrial corridor, positioning millions of workers at the threshold of the United States and...

  7. The Full Account: 170 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 170 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events

    U.S. foreign policy in Central America and its migration consequences — how CIA-backed coups, civil war funding, militarization, and mass deportation policies from the 1950s through the 1990s produced the Northern Triangle crisis and the asylum-seeking migration that the U.S. border enforcement...

  8. The Full Account: 171 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Aftermath

    15 MAR

    The Full Account: 171 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Aftermath

    The present state of the U.S. southern border as the accumulation of 175 years of specific decisions — the enforcement apparatus, the asylum system, the political economy that sustains the crisis, and the question of what the policy debate looks like when the full chain is visible versus when it...

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