Migra! : a history of the U.S. Border Patrol /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hernandez, Kelly Lytle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2010.
Series:American crossroads ; 29.
Subjects:
U.S. Border Patrol > History.
U.S. Border Patrol
Noncitizens > Mexican-American Border Region.
Illegal immigration > Mexican-American Border Region.
Immigration clandestine > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Noncitizens
Illegal immigration
Emigration and immigration
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Histoire.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R.
  • St; u; v; w; y; z.

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