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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,...
3) The border
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A border guard faces corruption in his department when the infant of a poor Mexican girl is kidnapped.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Arizona's violent border is the busiest cross-over point for illegal immigants to the United States. No state is as hostile to undocumented immigrants as Arizona, yet the city of Phoenix is home to thousands of people who live in the shadows. Sterling brings to light the invisible people who continue to live and work there despite all the hardships involved, and she exposes the fabric of a divisive national crisis.
10) Operation Gatekeeper: the rise of the "illegal alien" and the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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,...