| Description |
xi, 193 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Translation of an unpublished work. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Summary |
From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward -- 98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum -- his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calderón, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Rocio Hernández, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part one. The border. The line between life and death -- Carlos Specter, attorney-at-law for impossible cases -- Constructing a border -- Part two. Exile and asylum. Annunciation house : the asylum tradition -- Political asylum : sheltering arms, but not for everyone -- Giving up freedom to save your life -- The business of locking up migrants -- Part three. Impunity. Preserving memory -- Impunity -- Seeking justice from the other side -- Part four. Here we are. Back to life -- The never-ending wave -- "We don't want you here!" -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Specter, Carlos, 1954-
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Political refugees -- Government policy -- United States.
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Mexicans -- Government policy -- United States.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Lawyers -- Texas -- El Paso.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Commentary & Opinion.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst00908700
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Lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00994346
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Political refugees -- Government policy.
(OCoLC)fst01069687
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Texas -- El Paso.
(OCoLC)fst01206678
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Political refugees -- Government policy -- United States.
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Political refugees -- Government policy.
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Lawyers -- Texas -- El Paso.
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Lawyers.
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Mexicans -- Government policy -- United States.
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United States.
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Texas -- El Paso.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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| Added Author |
Stockwell, Diane, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Truax, Eileen. We built the wall. London, UK ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, [2018] 9781786632166 |
| ISBN |
9781786632173 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1786632179 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781786632166 (electronic book) |
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9781786632159 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
40028414771 |
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