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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a quest to capture a real-life, close-up view of the land where so many have been kicked, cussed, spit on, arrested, detained, trafficked, or killed-and the subject that has been debated for decades by politicians and commentators-Charles D. Thompson records his journey from Boca Chica to Tijuana, and his conversations with everyone from border officials to migrant workers to local residents. Along the journey, five centuries of cultural history...
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Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Wetback Nation helps to understand the background to the Bush proposals, the story of how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican adn other migrants, the bloating of the mismanaged Immigration and Naturalization Service, the deterioration of living standards along the frontier and the erichment of American employers.
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English
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"Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone except for a group of...
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The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches. Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler,...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For six months, Army Captain Pinsker was deployed to the Mexican-American border as a member of a unique mission. He and a handful of others were assigned to the Department of Justice as Special Prosecutors to handle the increasing number of immigration cases resulting from President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy. He shares what took place on his watch."--
9) Our 50-state border crisis: how the Mexican border fuels the drug epidemic in America's heartland
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern border in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts...
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In "No one is illegal" Justin Akers Chacn̤ and Mike Davis expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Counting the mounting chorus of anti-immigrant voices, "No one is illegal" debunks the ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their roots in U.S. history, and documents the new civil rights...
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Project Muse
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees reveal in their heartwrenching stories the power of family separation and reunification and the cost of criminalization, and they call into question assumptions...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the dangerous activities which take place along the United States-Mexico border region, presenting interviews with Mexican migrants, Border Patrol police, the Shadow Wolves Native American trackers, civilian Minutemen, and FBI agents investigating corruption.
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Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In this work of grave beauty and searing power, we follow twenty-six men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devil's Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it. Only twelve of the men made it out.
Publisher
Ciudad
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Three border-crossing stories are intertwined on the contemporary U.S.-Mexican border at Tijuana: those of a young Mexican mother with three children, seeking to start a new life after her husband's death; of a gringa adventurer looking for her whale-watching brother and for a Chicana friend in search of her roots; and of a campesino seeking to cross the border for better living conditions.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur. To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance, Eliseo was also the possessor...
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Jason Richter novels volume 2
Language
English
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The elite American unit known as Task Force TALON continues to battle a Russian terrorist group known as the Consortium, whose leader, Yegor Zakharov, seeks to exploit the porous Mexican border to infiltrate the U.S. and has allied himself with a mysterious Mexican smuggler of drugs and people. When U.S. Border Patrol agents are massacred, the National Security Agency adviser proposes such radical steps as using robots and nanotechnology to protect...
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Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It wasn't surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers coyotes and migrants could say how or why they'd gotten there. And only through Taylor's obsession did another...