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The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Robert Lee Maril
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Description for The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFFS; JPP; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
To the American public it’s a 2,000-mile-long project to keep illegal immigrants, narcotics, and terrorists on the other side of the U.S.–Mexico border. In the deserts of Arizona, it’s a “virtual fence” of high-tech electronic sensors, cameras, and radar. In some border stretches it’s a huge concrete-and-steel wall; in others it’s a series of solitary posts designed to stop drug runners; in still others it’s rusted barbed-wire cattle fences. For two-thirds of the international boundary it’s non-existent.
Just what is this entity known as “the fence”? And more important, is it working? Through first-person interviews with defence contractors, ... Read more
To the American public it’s a 2,000-mile-long project to keep illegal immigrants, narcotics, and terrorists on the other side of the U.S.–Mexico border. In the deserts of Arizona, it’s a “virtual fence” of high-tech electronic sensors, cameras, and radar. In some border stretches it’s a huge concrete-and-steel wall; in others it’s a series of solitary posts designed to stop drug runners; in still others it’s rusted barbed-wire cattle fences. For two-thirds of the international boundary it’s non-existent.
Just what is this entity known as “the fence”? And more important, is it working? Through first-person interviews with defence contractors, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896727762
SKU
V9780896727762
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About Robert Lee Maril
Robert Lee Maril is professor of sociology and the founding director of the Centre for Diversity and Inequality Research at East Carolina University. The author of many books, including Patrolling Chaos: The U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas (TTUP, 2006) and Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage Labor in Oklahoma, he has testified ... Read more
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