It seems that the border has always had a struggle with enforcement. As the book states "What the treaty did not mention was how difficult it would be for the commission to impose the boundary line and the sovereign authority it represented on the ground" (Rachel St John, 2011). It seems like that same struggle presents itself today. #Hist416
@NoahJohnson Much of this has to do with the disconnect between treaties or other laws and conditions that people in the borderlands navigate every day. What are some examples of ways that laws, policies, or treaty stipulations didn't (or don't) match the lived realities of the US-Mexico border? #Hist416