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# Border Security Will Always be Elusive
- URL: https://www.adamsowards.net/border-security-will-always-be-elusive/
- Published: 2019-01-14T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-16T17:32:16.000Z
- Author: Adam M. Sowards
- Tags: magazine articles, publication, 2019, high country news, reckoning with history, immigration policy, borders, history

"Border security will always be elusive," *High Country News* (January 14, 2019). 

[Border security will always be elusive - High Country NewsThe Borderlands have long been governed by impermanent and shifting policies.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fa/10/fa102a82-f50e-4e06-9a70-213785342d94/content/images/icon/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2-12.png)High Country NewsAdam M. Sowards![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/fa/10/fa102a82-f50e-4e06-9a70-213785342d94/content/images/thumbnail/rwhborder1.jpg)](https://www.hcn.org/articles/reckoning-with-history-border-security-will-always-be-elusive?ref=adamsowards.net)