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Up against the wall : the case for opening the Mexican-American border / Peter Laufer, PhD ; foreword by Vicente Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laufer, Peter, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Foreword
- Chapters
- Chapter 1 Up Against the Wall (Expletive)
- Encountering Borderlines
- Perishable Walls
- Walls Surround Us
- Barely Touching through the Wall
- Don't Fence Me In-or Out
- Chapter 2 Illegal Alien or Clever New American
- Crooked Cops
- Juana María's Solution
- Chapter 3 Still Life on the Border
- A Legit Business Opportunity
- Striptease Interlude
- Yesteryear's Borderless Border
- Freelance Gringo Coyotes
- Chapter 4 On Guard
- Shot Dead
- Chaos Reigns
- Chapter 5 Death along for the Ride
- Buried Alive
- Chapter 6 A Weary Lawyer's View
- Chapter 7 What is a Border?
- More Borderlines
- Chapter 8 Failed Borders
- Borders Crossed
- More Borders
- Panic Attack
- Why I Have a Stasi File
- Post-Berlin Walls
- Mr. Rogers Checks In
- Chapter 9 U.S. Annexation of Half of Mexico
- Artificial Borders
- Mexican Independence
- Singing the News
- Are Mexicans Reclaiming Their Lost Northern Territory?
- Chapter 10 Early Border Control
- Braceros-Guest Workers or Indentured Servants?
- Adios, Braceros
- Hollywood Wetbacks
- Chapter 11 The Historical Failure of Border Control
- An Arresting Scene
- Border Routine
- Worried Neighbors
- Border Strategy Architect
- Chapter 12 The Vigilante Movement
- A Visit to Tombstone
- The Pragmatic Local Mayor
- Families Ripped Apart
- With the Vigilantes
- Rained out Vigilantes
- Borderline
- Another Porous Borderline
- Real Justice versus a Vigilante
- Law and Order
- Chapter 13 Americans Party South, Mexicans Struggle North
- Tribal Divides
- No More Commuting
- Chapter 14 The Porous, Shifting Border
- Bribery 101
- Journalists in the Crosshairs
- Fluid Border
- Cash for the Taking
- Bags of Bribes
- Cultural Indigestion
- Chapter 15 Illegal Americans
- Chapter 16 On the Kentucky-Mexico Border
- Revolving Door
- Bowling Green, Kentucky versus Bowling Green, Mexico
- Chapter 17 Deportation made Easier
- Chapter 18 One Farmer Working by the Rules
- Drive a Stick Shift
- Chapter 19 Who Wants the Border Closed?
- The Trucker's Lament Is False
- Chapter 20 Burden or Benefit?
- 9/11 and the Mexican Border
- The Game-Changing 1986 Immigration Law
- There Goes the Neighborhood
- Chapter 21 The Long Road North from Chiapas and Chihuahua
- To Pancho Villa's Chihuahua
- No News Is No News
- On to the Zapatistas
- NAFTA We Don't Hafta!
- Politics and the Pulpit
- Massacre Memorial
- Chapter 22 No Amigos in the White House
- Bush's Legacy of Scammers
- Build the Wall!
- Presidente Fox on the Border
- End Matter
- Epilogue: A Practical Blueprint for Normalizing the Border
- Mexico in My Dreams
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- About the Author
- Index
- Colophon
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Laufer, Peter, 1950- Up against the wall : the case for opening the Mexican-American border.
- ISBN:
- 1785275259
- 9781785275258
- 1785275267
- 9781785275265
- Publisher Number:
- 40030614067
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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