The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
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2015 International Latino Book Awards Winner for Best Political / Current Affairs Book
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. 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, filling jobs that have become the underpinnings of the U.S. economy. Rather than building more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that the U.S. 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.Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1613748361
ISBN13:9781613748367
Release Date:May 2014
Publisher:Chicago Review Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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