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Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

By Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780520945715
DOI
10.1525/9780520945715
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2604259 bytes)
Series
American Crossroads; 29
Pages
336\327
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 13:20:25

Description

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. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands 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 Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

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