The Full Account

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Genthos Media

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

  1. 13 juni

    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.

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

  2. 14 juni

    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

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

  3. 15 juni

    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...

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

  4. 16 juni

    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...

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

  5. 17 juni

    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

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

  6. 18 juni

    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...

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

  7. 19 juni

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

    U.S. foreign policy interventions in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras from the 1950s through the 1990s and the downstream migration consequences — the deportation circuit, the emergence of the maras, and the Northern Triangle asylum-seeking migration arriving at a border system designed...

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

  8. 20 juni

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

    The destination episode of an eight-link Retroplot tracing 175 years of specific, traceable decisions from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 to the present-day U.S. southern border — examining the enforcement apparatus, the asylum system, the political economy, and the question of what...

    The Full Account: 171 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Aftermath
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A narrative production that explores history, biography, and reported long-form storytelling through a curious and warm editorial lens.

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  • Kanal
    Genthos Media
  • Skapad av
    Nora Beckett
  • Aktiva år
    2026
  • Avsnitt
    29
  • Åldersgräns
    Barnvänligt
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