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Author Ramos, Jorge, 1958-

Title Morir en el intento : la peor tragedia de inmigrantes en la historia de los Estados Unidos / Jorge Ramos.

Imprint New York : Harper Collins Publishers, ©2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Foreign Language  SP 325.1 R14    Check Shelf
Edition 1 ed.
Description xvi, 167 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Contents Cuando se abrieron las puertas -- Venían desde muy lejos -- Los coyotes -- Dentro del tráiler, muriendo poco a poco -- El niño -- Los muertos y los sobrevivientes -- Karla y el juicio -- Últimas palabras.
Summary An account of the May 2003 incident in which nineteen illegal immigrants lost their lives while trying to cross the Mexican-American border discusses the trafficking operations of Karla Chavez, who abandoned the victims in a truck in Texas.
Language In Spanish.
Subject Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
Trucking. (OCoLC)fst01157708
Extranjeros indocumentados -- Frontera mexico-estadounidense (Región)
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Noncitizens.
Trucking -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Immigrants -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst00967720
Noncitizens -- Crimes against. (OCoLC)fst00967155
Inmigrantes -- Delitos contra las -- Frontera mexico-estadounidense (Región)
Texas -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Illegal immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Texas. (OCoLC)fst01210336
Texas -- Emigración e inmigración -- Aspectos sociales.
Genre/Form Spanish language materials.
Subject TRUE CRIME.
Latin Americans -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908722
Spanish language materials.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Mexicans -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Immigrants -- Crimes against -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Local Subject Undocumented immigration -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Subject Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. (OCoLC)fst01239966
Genre/Form Spanish language materials.
Subject Human smuggling. (OCoLC)fst00963471
ISBN 0060789468
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9780060789466
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