Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/4PhiEe Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol By: Kelly Lytle Hernandez Publisher: University of California Press Print ISBN: 9780520266414, 0520266412 eText ISBN: 9780520945715, 0520945719 Edition: 1st Pages: 336 Copyright year: 2010 Format: EPUB Available from $ 29.95 USD SKU 9780520945715 Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-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. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force that continuously draws intense scrutiny and denunciations from political activism groups. To tell this story, MacArthur Genius Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records and bits of biography stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the Mexican border and bringing to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics, Migra! reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a project of policing immigrants and undocumented “aliens” in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Additional ISBNs 9780520257696, 0520257693
