The dangerous divide : peril and promise on the US-Mexico border / Peter Eichstaedt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eichstaedt, Peter H., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens--United States.

Noncitizens.

Crime--Mexican-American Border Region.

Crime.

Border security--Mexican-American Border Region.

Border security.

Illegal immigration.

Mexican-American Border Region.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Place of Publication:

2014.

Chicago, Illinois : Lawrence Hill Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"How do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America’s legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting with migrants, border security advocates, and communities ravaged by cross-border crime. He rides with the border patrol and reveals the tragic situation that has evolved along the border. Eichstaedt finds that despite tens of thousands of border agents and the expenditure of billions of dollars, an estimated one million Mexicans and Central Americans continue to cross the border each year. These migrants fill jobs that have become the underpinnings of the U.S. economy. Rather than building more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that the United States must reform its immigration and drug laws and acknowledge that costly, counterproductive, and antiquated policies have created deadly circumstances on both sides of the border. Recognizing the truth of America’s long and tortured relations with Mexico must be followed by legitimizing the contributions made by migrants to the American way of life."-from eBook Central

Contents:

Desert solitaire

A thousand stories

The frontier of fear

Migrants or terrorists?

Overwhelming odds

Guns go south

Good-bye, Columbus

The ghost of Pancho Villa

Guardians of the border

The port at Nogales

And we're the bad guys?

To leave our land is to suffer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781613748374

161374837X

OCLC:

878149613