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De Léon spends 5+ years tracking the effects of the Prevention Through Deterrence policy enacted in the mid-90s, arguing that the most brutal (and deliberate) weapon in the war against 'illegal immigration' is a nonhuman agent: the desert. This language reflects a bureaucratic attempt to downplay the role of the U.S. Government in these deaths. Prevention Through Deterrence and the Desert Scapegoat The premise of De León’s book is that the American government and Border Patrol use the Sonora Desert on the US-Mexico border as not only a deterrent for illegal migration but as “a killing field” capable of eviscerating migrant bodies and the evidence that they were there in […] The primary section of De León’s book, “Dangerous Ground,” discusses the policy of Prevention Through Deterrence and the role of human and non-human actors in relation to the policy.

Initial Prevention Through Deterrence documents described the hostility and danger of the desert, but over time the language used by the government has “changed from “hostile” to “harsh,” “inhospitable,” and the like” (De León, 2015, p.33).

Rather than looking at the entirety of the Mexican-American border, De León focuses specifically on the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona. Jason traced this increase to a Border Patrol policy still in effect, called “Prevention Through Deterrence.” Over three episodes, Radiolab will investigate this policy, its surprising origins, and the people whose lives were changed forever because of it.