The consequences of political fear-mongering and tough talk on immigration in the American Southwest.
The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue states of the Southwest as a model for the nation in their go-it-alone posturing and tough immigration-enforcement talk. In Border Wars, dogged investigative journalist Tom Barry documents the costs of that model: lives lost; families torn apart; billions of wasted tax dollars; vigilantes prowling the desert; and fiscal crises in cities, counties, and states. Even worse, he warns, the entire nation risks following their lead. As Barry explains, the lack of coherent federal policy on immigration and drug war conduct and the uncritical embrace of all things in the name of national security has opened doors for opportunists from boardrooms to governor's offices in Texas and Arizona. Corporate-prison magnates eagerly swallow up undocumented immigrants into taxpayer-funded dungeons, border sheriffs and politicians trade on voters' fears of Latinos and “big government,” and pro-business policy institutes and lobbyists battle the public interest. Border Wars offers a stark portrait of the domestic cost of failed federal leadership in the post-9/11 era.

Border Wars (Boston Review Books)

History

Barry, Tom

Americas

The MIT Press

The other side of paradise: Foreign control in the Caribbean (The Grove Press Latin America series)

GROVE PRESS

Presents a detailed synopsis of the current economic and political conditions in each Central American country

The Central America Fact Book

Preusch, Deb

Grove Pr

Presents a detailed synopsis of the current economic and political conditions in each Central American country

The Central America fact book

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Dollars & Dictators: A Guide to Central America

Wood, Beth

Literature & Fiction

A Prodigious Leap: WWII Memoir of Triumph Over Adversity

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Independently published

A look at the U.S. economic and humanitarian assistance programs in Central America

The Soft War: The Uses and Abuses of U.S. Economic Aid in Central America

Business & Money

Central America inside out: The essential guide to its societies, politics, and economies

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Grove Weidenfeld

Provides an incisive analysis of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, exploring such issues as economic development, immigration policy, and the drug trade

The Great Divide: The Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990s

Sims, Beth

BROWNE, Harry

Social Sciences

Central America Fact Book

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