Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: KCKCC JM | Judge: Leader, Paul
La migra

LA MIGRA, LA MIGRA, LA MIGRA, LA MIGRA correle es LA MIGRA

Let's play La Migra
I'll be the Border Patrol.
You be
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a gun.
Get ready, get set, run.

La migra is the everyday policing of the state, that instills fear, physiological violence, that retains la familia to be on the constant state of insecurity. 

Mendoza 2009 JOSE JORGE MENDOZA?,  "Introduction to the Ethics of Illegality", OREGON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 11.1 (2009).

As is the case with most small children, I grew up with a set
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and nativist arguments that are constantly being put forward by various pundits and intellectuals

Unlike the cucuy and la llorona; la migra is always watching us, always near by and always in search of those that the dominant narratives has considered the other, the alien, the illegal. These dominant narratives have vilified the oppressed to the point where we don’t consider a person’s subjectivity but rather illegality.

Affirming la familia, means we are able to fracture the over determinism that is imposed on people, and labeled them as alien, and illegal immigrants. Affirming also mean we are able to expose the ontology of society that places the other as notions of illegality, that allow physiological violence , insecurity and constant fear. 

ethics of Illegality in the context of the 1AC - is the approach that one takes not to fear the state, or feel insecure but instead to resist these dominant paradigms, that make illegality a form of exclusion, the round is key were we instead of hiding and running away, affirm la familia, embrace illegality in order to destroy the notion behind it.  

The performance of the affirmative is ways in which we blur the lines of illegality, exposes the ongoing oppression, thru the space of debate
Gonzales and Chavez 12  Roberto G. Gonzales and Leo R. Chavez “
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is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine 

Knowing they have more to offer society and themselves, they wait for the possibility
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the young people examined here will continue to live with uncertain futures.

We as debaters, come from parents who are illegal immigrants or were illegal
Immigrant. we are not only in constant fear of deportation but of detainment of la familia.  Alexis and I have encountered the migra... the story goes like this:

My family lives in fear that one day my dad will not show up home because he got deported
I looked at my window and saw 20 people with guns pulled out and a vest with the label ICE

My dad as the main source of income, we are always at jeopardy of our livelihoods, debate scholarship is my safety net in case la migra ever finds my dad.
All the neighbors stared at my house, while the ICE officer, barged in looking for an illegal immigrant, the community was shocked that these ICE officers had reached our neighborhood  
The second my dad crossed la frontera, the second he crossed the border is the second he sacrificed his subjectivity in the larger society and became the illegal, the object, and the alien.
We felt in secured, my mother panicking, fearing that the ICE officer would take her, she was legally here but she still feared that they will deny her evidence and still take her and deam her illegal
 

Alexis and I, advocate la familia as a form of resistance of ethics illegality, shifting the objectivity of the alien immigrant to subjectivity of themselves in order to expose the ontology that justifies the cruel policies of indefinite detention  

It is not enough to reform the system, or change the legal status of an individual, but an affirmation of illegality that exposes the proper management that justifies the oppression of the other
Roxanne et 13Doty, Roxanne Lynne and Wheatley, Elizabeth Shannon. (2013) Private Detention and the Immigration Industrial Complex. International Political Sociology

In Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Foucault (1979)
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in the overall economy of power that is our current immigration enforcement system.

This is how la familia has a unique experience with indefinite detention, always in the threat of being captured, labeled as dangerous to justify the policing of the state.  indefinite detention uses proper management not just for enemy combatants but for immigrants also. 

Tan 11 BY MICHAEL TAN, LOCKED UP WITHOUT END THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF IMMIGRANTS WILL NOT MAKE AMERICA SAFER OCTOBER 2011 Michael Tan is a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project (IRP). Michael is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School, where he served as a legal intern in the Workers' and Immigrants' Rights Advocacy Clinic and a director of the Immigration Legal Services clinic of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization (LSO), and was awarded the Stephen J. Massey prize for best exemplifying the values of LSO. He previously worked at the IRP as a Liman Public Interest Fellow. Michael recently completed a clerkship with the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He also holds a Masters' Degree in Comparative Literature from New York University, http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Tan_-_Locked_Up_Without_End_100611.pdf

The Rapid and Costly Expansion of Detention as Immigration Policy The United States already administers
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have served their sentences and have been living responsible lives since that time.

El cucuy

portate bien o te lleva el cucuy
you can hear the mothers,
calling to their misbehaving children:
"Portate bien o te lleva el cucuy," they say.
"Behave, or the cucuy will get you"
His name is invoked in hushed tones
No one really believes in el cucuy
do they?

Hiding in the closet, waiting for unsuspecting
In todays technical world, with violence
and horror in media at every turn,
Why do children still huddle in bed,
with covers pulled over panting faces?
Why do they still fear the shadows at night?
Why does this age old monster still haunt their dreams

El cucuy is the equivalent to the boogeyman told to latin kids but now it has shifted where the alien has been scapegoated as the cucuy. Using el cucuy means the larger society is able to justify oppression for the sake of extermination and removing the cucuy from society. We must stop this scapegoating and listen to those who have no voice
Mendoza 2009 JOSE JORGE MENDOZA?,  "Introduction to the Ethics of Illegality", OREGON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 11.1 (2009).

In response to the fetishization of law, I hear many people today talk of
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which for us symbolize the collective historical memory of America’s treatment of immigrants.

The framing of your decision is one of ethics to identify systems of oppression that control population and able to act upon those structures

Space like debate, are key components in which we can embrace our illegality instead of hiding, fearing the state, we use public spaces to acknowledge that we are illegal or portrayed as an alien. The management of immigration done by the state must be exposed.

The illegal immigrants are portrayed as el cucuy, those who must be feared, this re-produces the notions of illegality
Cecilia and Dan 13
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(2012) and Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (2007).

exclusion leads to several other associated experiences of illegality for undocumented immigrants. these include
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illegality can be framed and manipulated to empower people to collectively demand inclusion.

Our embracement of la familia, means we removed the negative connotation of illegality,
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are the frames in which la familia must live in their everyday lives.