American border regimes in the South and West. Alana de Hinojosa uncovers the long contest

over Juárez-El Paso's shifting riparian border environment around the century-long Chamizal

land dispute in the Rio Grande/Bravo. Justin Randolph considers the imperial circuits that

brought Mississippi's militia form from wars of colonialism and slavery in the Old Southwest to

the Texas-Mexico borderlands during the Mexican Revolution before sending White Texans to

Mississippi to train a modern state police force. Last, Jonathan Cortez locates the redeployment

of historic spaces of refugee warehousing during the Mexican Revolution and Japanese

internment during World War II for present day immigration enforcement and detention.

Throughout, presenters show that those who would draw and enforce borders did not enjoy

limitless power. Thus, the group considers how resistance and collaboration produced place and

belonging in the face of immense might. As time allows, speakers also share their experience of

working in Texas today.