TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eichstaedt,Peter H.
TI  - The dangerous divide: peril and promise on the US-Mexico border 
SN  - 9781613748374
AV  - JV6565 .E43 2014eb
U1  - 364.1/370973 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Chicago, Illinois
PB  - Lawrence Hill Books
KW  - Border security
KW  - Mexican-American Border Region
KW  - Crime
KW  - Noncitizens
KW  - United States
KW  - Illegal immigration
KW  - Sécurité frontalière
KW  - Région frontalière mexicano-américaine
KW  - Immigrants clandestins
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Immigration clandestine
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Emigration & Immigration
KW  - fast
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - North America
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. The migrants -- Part II. The business of fear -- Part III. Guns, money, and resentment -- Part IV. The enforcers -- Part V. Brewing a solution
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher
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