LEADER 03604nam 2200625 450 001 9910827848503321 005 20220906190718.0 010 $a161374837X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000096816 035 $a(EBL)1661048 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001131967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12373160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001131967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11146584 035 $a(PQKB)11256692 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1661048 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1661048 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10855059 035 $a(OCoLC)878149613 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000096816 100 $a20140413h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe dangerous divide $eperil and promise on the US-Mexico border /$fPeter Eichstaedt 210 1$aChicago, Illinois :$cLawrence Hill Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 1 $a1613748361 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDesert 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. 330 $a"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 606 $aNoncitizens$zUnited States 606 $aCrime$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aBorder security$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aIllegal immigration 607 $aMexican-American Border Region 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 607 $aMexico$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 615 0$aNoncitizens 615 0$aCrime 615 0$aBorder security 615 0$aIllegal immigration. 676 $a364.1/370973 700 $aEichstaedt$b Peter H.$f1947-$01652338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827848503321 996 $aThe dangerous divide$94005457 997 $aUNINA