What is Leslie Marmon Silkos argument in border patrol state?
In “Border Patrol State” by Leslie Marmon Silko, her argument in this article is that “illegal aliens” are dehumanized by the border patrol. Border Patrol agents have profiled immigrants and treat people crossing the border unfairly because of skin color or other physical features such as anglo saxons who seem to be clergy, who wear ethnic clothing or jewlery with very long hair or very short hair because Border Patrol agents have “profiles” of “those sorts” of white people. The Border Patrol have divided the north from the south with their unhumane treatment and profiling of people crossing the border from the south.
