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Border Wars
2011
Overview
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.
Publisher
The MIT Press,MIT Press
Subject
/ Border security -- Economic aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region
/ Border security -- Government policy -- United States
/ Immigration enforcement -- Corrupt practices -- Mexican-American Border Region
/ Mexican-American Border Region
/ Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
/ Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
/ Political corruption -- Mexican-American Border Region
/ United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
ISBN
0262016672, 9780262016674
