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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
0520257693, 9780520257696, 9780520266414
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1474204 bytes)
Series
American Crossroads 29
Edition
1
Pages
336\0
Time added
2021-09-20 16:04:29

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. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region Introduction PART ONE: FORMATION 1. The Early Years 2. A Sanctuary of Violence 3. The California-Arizona Borderlands 4. Mexico’s Labor Emigrants, America’s Illegal Immigrants PART TWO: TRANSFORMATION 5. A New Beginning 6. The Corridors of Migration Control 7. Uprising: A Farmers’ Rebellion PART THREE: OPERATION WETBACK AND BEYOND 8. The Triumphs of ’54 9. “The Day of the Wetback Is Over” Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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