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Shared Discrimination’s Effect on Solidarity between People of Color Is Uniform Across Major Racial, Political, and Social Differences

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Operation Lone Star (OLS), a state-level effort to fortify the México-U.S. border in Texas, marked an escalation in the U.S. “Prevention Through Deterrence” (PTD) policy. How have politicians and government officials justified the escalation of immigration enforcement tactics despite the futility and lethality of these tools? Our theoretical approach relies on Beltrán’s (2020) critical exploration of migrant cruelty to understand how migrant deaths are embedded in practices of Latinx racialization and the productive quality of punishment (Valdez, 2016). This study offers a critical analysis of government documents, news coverage, and official statements concerning migrant deaths to trace the evolution of PTD over the course of 30 years. We find that PTD’s transformation from the weaponization of nature to its increasing reliance on violent technologies and tactics has been facilitated by the rise of what we call the “irrepressible/irresponsible” trap that blames migrants in their life and in their death.

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Immigrants and the children of immigrants routinely receive information about the politics of both their country of origin and country of residence. While existing research emphasizes how diasporas ab...

Meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments reveals patterns of similarity and variation in public immigration preferences worldwide.

How systemic cruelty against Latinos is fueled by a U.S. racial hierarchy that equates "proximity to Blackness" with lower social worth.

Conference information for the 2026 APSA Political Psychology Pre-Conference, including schedule, registration, and abstract submission.

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Latinos Must Forge Stronger Political Solidarity with Black People to Remove It

This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) thei...

The United States continues to evade scrutiny as a place that actively represses, expels, and rules over subsets of its population. This oversight has foreclosed investigation into the empirical relat...