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Joseph Carens in his 2013 book Ethics of Immigration argues we should not criminalize undocumented migrants. Instead, we should view them as irregular immigrants who are entitled to some general human rights. This article focuses on Caren's discussion of criminalization in light of recent scholarship by John Marquez and Natalie Cisneros pertaining to the Latina/o border death toll, generalized violence, and discourses on undocumented pregnant migrante females as multiplying rats and anchor babies. This article argues that simply relying on a democratic state model to understand the realities of border militarization is not sufficient because it does not perform some of the explanatory functions performed by other non-ideal theories. By synthesizing the views of Cisneros and Marquez, this article distinguishs thick and thin senses of excessive border enforcement and outlines a notion of the racial/sexual state of expendability as a way of making better sense of these violent realities.

This paper presents evaluation results of a computational algorithm developed to simulate the random depolymerization process of a linear polymer having an initial distribution of molecular weights similar to polymers obtained by polycondensation of AB-type monomers, i.e., Flory-Schultz or most probable distribution. Starting from fundamental definitions of this system, as the initial values of the degree of polymerization and chain number (Xno and No, respectively) and the percentage of cleaved bonds (%E), it is confirmed that our algorithm adequately describes the random depolymerization process. Results obtained during the computational simulation indicate that the algorithm properly predicts, among other things, that the inverse of the final polymerization degree (1/Xnf) increases linearly with the applied %E while polydispersity after depolymerization (Df) decreases linearly when the latter parameter increases.