JE #8

Before taking this course, I did not know that the Juarez femicides were occurring. Desert Blood by Profe provided a historical viewpoint to these homicides by first informing the public of the murders. Without someone telling the story then who will know that such injustices occur in our world. The political background of this injustice is that the book gives clarification as to the structures that motivate these murders. The maquiladora is in itself a factory that is made to exploit humans and relinquish them once they have been exhausted. These factories are draining human life and the importance of life. With these machines people are seen as simply machines that could be used and abused. By being stripped of their humanity, the womyn who work in these factories are battered, abused, raped, murdered, and who knows what else. The creation of these factories is for no other reason than profit. Through the creation of Nafta, international corporations are able to abuse the workers from Mexico and violate their human rights. When watching Bordertown, I was in shock and disbelief. I am angered by the fact that I did not know about this film prior to border consciousness or of the Juarez femicides. Entry Denied further made me conscious of how borders have been used to regulate womyn and gay people. The various polices that have gone through this country’s legislation have been biased against women for example the legislation called the Chinese Exclusion Acts. The fact that these immigration policies happened and are currently happening show how White America still has a prerogative of eugenics. All humans have the birth right of crossing any land they feel like crossing. Only because of human greed, people are bound to imaginary borders that become visible with the blood that has been spilled on them by innocent people.