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Barry, Tom, 1950-

Title Border wars / Tom Barry.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (171 pages).
Series	A Boston review book
	Boston review book.
Contents	1. A death in Texas -- 2. At war in Texas -- 3. Securing Arizona -- 4. A new day in the sun belt.
Summary	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 description.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
	Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration.
	Border security -- Government policy -- United States.
	Border security -- Economic aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Immigration enforcement -- Corrupt practices -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Political corruption -- Mexican-American Border Region.
	Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Other Form:	Print version: Barry, Tom, 1950- Border wars. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011 9780262016674 (DLC) 2011021039 (OCoLC)719429202
ISBN	9780262299022 (electronic bk.)
	026229902X (electronic bk.)

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