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Series
Publisher
KidHaven Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As immigration becomes an increasingly important and controversial issue, it is important for everyone living in the United States to understand the opinions surrounding it. What does it mean for a country to have open borders? Should the United States adopt this policy or a different one? Readers learn the basics of immigration in this engaging volume that presents both sides of the debate surrounding border security and open borders. Intriguing...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen? Patriots? Racists? Vigilantes? Harel Shapira lived with the Minutemen and patrolled the border with them, seeking neither to condemn nor praise them,...
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning a nearly twenty-year period, from the end of World War I to repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and beyond, The Line Riders reveals an often overlooked and violent chapter in American history and introduces the officers that guarded the international boundary when the West was still wild"--
17) Crossing over
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An immigration officer must protect the U.S. border in Los Angeles from those trying to pursue the American Dream, as those around him try to break the rules by fraud, blackmail, and work-site enforcement.
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over,...
20) Operation Gatekeeper and beyond: the war on "illegals" and the remaking of the U.S.-Mexico boundary
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
1800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is a major revision and update of Nevins' earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up to date, but as a "case" of increasing economic integration and liberalization along with growing immigration control, the US. / Mexico Border and its history...
