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The three U.S.-Mexico border wars : drugs, immigration, and Homeland Security / Tony Payan ; foreword by Ed Williams.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Payan, Tony, 1967-
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Smuggling--Mexican-American Border Region.; Smuggling.; Drug control--United States.; Drug control.; United States.; Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.; Noncitizens.; Illegal immigration--Government policy--United States.; Illegal immigration.; Noncitizens--Government policy.; United States--Relations--Mexico.; Relations.; Mexico.; Mexico--Relations--United States.; Mexican-American Border Region--Economic conditions.; Mexican-American Border Region.; Mexican-American Border Region--Politics and government.; Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.; Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:: xv, 164 pages ; 25 cm
Other Title:: Three United States-Mexico border wars
Place of Publication:: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
Contents:: The three border wars; A tale with two sides; The meaning of the border; The frontier era; The customs era; The law enforcement era; The national security border; The closing of the border; Our lives in the hands of others; A democratic deficit; Conflating the issues; Planning to secure the border: same old, same old; Are the three border wars justified?; The scope of the book; The drug war on the border; A bird's eye view; Economics and geography; It's economics; The explanatory power of a standard map; The beginning of the war; Between business and war; Bureaucrats versus drug cartels: unequal enemies; Modus smugglandi; The port of entry versus the non-port of entry axis; The people versus the vehicles axis; The NAFTA connection; The C-TPAT; The narco-tunnels; Corrupting the warriors; The protective shield of the border police; Victimizing the criminals with bribes; Violence and the drug trafficking business; Competition: violence between cartels; Competition: intra-cartel violence; Taking sides: the Mexican government; Plata o plomo: silver or lead; Disciplining the workforce; Random violence: the exception to the rule; The Sicarios; Handling the disloyal; Money and drugs: north and south; The media and the drug war; The wealth of drugs: on narco mansions and narco juniors; The big cartels versus the small time players; The border geographic of the drug war; Conclusion; Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border; The scene at the border; The beginning; The breaking point: 1986; A failed logic for a failed war; The balloon effect; The dead; Build it and they will come; The backside of economic development; It's economics, stupid!; The legal side; Mothers and their babies; How they come; The old crossers: how times change; Humpty dumpty and the border; The more things change, the more they stay the same; Operation hold the line; Good fences make good neighbors; Empowering the coyotes; The crossing card trick; NAFTA and undocumented immigration; OTM: other than Mexicans; Other modus operandi; The militarization of the border; Law enforcement and escalation; Deterrence and escalation; The illegal document industry; The attrition argument; The U.S. military and the border; All the border's a stage; The American public; The minutemen; Border political grandstanding; A new approach is needed; Homeland Security and the border; The war on terror comes to the border; The border and the immediate aftermath of September 11; Diagnosing the failure of September 11; Immigration failure; Economic integration, trade and border security; Arizona and New Mexico; Damn those bureaucrats!; Intelligence failure and the border; Reorganizing for border security; A nagging question; New immigration procedures; Consequences of the new immigration procedures; New trade procedures; The consequences of the new trade system; The value added by the new trade procedures; The inordinate burden on border residents; The costs of Homeland Security at the border to the taxpayer; Back to normalcy?; The treatment of border crossers; The panopticon border; Technology and the panopticon border; Militarization of the border; The border as a symbol of a reluctant partnership; Agent González and the problem with the problem; The definition of border security; The construction of security; Unhelpful rhetoric; Talking past each other at the border; The North American Free Trade Agreement and the border; The North American solution; Defining a North American community; The North American security bubble; Bureaucratic politics and the border; The border reinstated; The border is the future of America; No end in sight.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-160) and index.
ISBN:: 027598818X
OCLC:: 65207081
Publisher Number:: 9780275988180

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