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Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

byKelly Lytle Hernández

-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the promises of the American dream. Migra! rests its case on archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, making room for uncertainty while explaining what the surviving evidence can establish. Migra! also examines the assumptions surrounding its subject, connecting them to wider arguments in history and political science. The book leaves readers with a clearer understanding of the history of the u.s. border patrol and of the unresolved questions that continue beyond its final chapter.

Publisher

University of California Press

Publication date

2010

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9780520266414