The immigration policy of the american administrations: The mexican frontier Juan Rubio, Antonio Daniel García Conesa, Isabel María US administrations The United States is a country made up of immigrants and by immigrants. People from all continents emigrated to this country, either because they were expelled due to the living conditions in their countries of origin, or in search of job opportunities and new horizons. In addition, this country is the product of a long history of multiple migratory phases that resulted in a highly heterogeneous panorama as a final balance. And in the specific case of Mexico, as Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey pointed out, it is justified by the strong historical links between Mexico and the United States and by its huge border. In general terms, the current immigration system in the United States is dysfunctional. Originally derived from the 1965 Law but mixed with other policies that were developed in later decades such as the “IRCA” of 1986, known as the amnesty law, or the “IIRAIRA” of 1996, highly restrictive and that criminalized undocumented migration, the US immigration system is currently overwhelmed, and it requires a profound reform. The methodology we will be following is doing a historical review of immigration policies undertaken by the different US administrations, whether Democrat or Republican. During most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States implemented a policy that encouraged the massive arrival of immigrants. Thus, it is estimated that between 1815 and 1970 more than 46 million people entered the country. And since the year 1920, the date that marks the beginning of the registration of immigrants, about 75 million people entered the United States, according to recent estimates by Philip Martin. What is terrifying is the fact that the latest initiatives have established a direct connection between immigration policies based on family networks with an uncontrolled influx of cheap unskilled labour as the main reasons why wages in the blue-collar sector have stagnated in the United States today. Thus, the US administration endorsed these precepts by presenting the immigrant as a scapegoat and conceiving the said subject as lacking the necessary skills that can contribute to the country’s economy, in addition to not speaking English and becoming the enemy of the American working class. All these measures, among which the construction of the border wall stands out due to its media notoriety, are aimed at tightening the control of the migratory flow, especially that coming from the border with Mexico. Therefore, the objective of this proposal will be to analyze how the different measures of the US administrations have been causing a serious humanitarian crisis, significantly restricting immigration from Latin America. 2024-02-08T08:28:08Z 2024-02-08T08:28:08Z 2024-01-10 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Juan Rubio, A.D. & García Conesa, I.M. (2024). The immigration policy of the American Administrations. En Estudios sobre y desde la frontera. Fernando Trujillo & Beatriz Pérez Cortina (Coord), pp. 697-717. Dykinson https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88663 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Dykinson