Border Towns and Border Crossings

A History of the U.S.-Mexico Divide

AvRoger Bruns

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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This is a compelling and revealing look at the history of the U.S.-Mexico border as a place, a symbol of cross-cultural melding, and a source of growing anxiety over immigration and national security.The U.S.-Mexico border is far more than a line that separates two countries. A winding path of nearly 2,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, it is history, commerce, and culture. In recent years, however, attitudes about border crossings and border issues have hardened as has immigration policy. A source of growing anxiety over illegal immigration, national security, and safety, the border has become a symbol of political cataclysm over immigration law and enforcement, the future of DACA, the increasingly harsh treatment of refugees and others who attempt to cross without authorization, and the future of U.S. policy. This book traces the history of the border and its people, from the creation of the border line to explosive issues surrounding immigration and the future of the United States as a nation of diverse cultures and races.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-19
Mått:178 x 254 x 21 mm
Vikt:822 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781440863523

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Roger Bruns is a historian and former deputy executive director of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration.

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The strength of this readable text is the original documents included with each chapter, which allow students to gain experience with primary source material. This text will be especially useful for community college libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates.

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IntroductionCreating the LineDocumentsSpeech of Representative Abraham Lincoln (Whig-IL)on Mexican War, January 12, 1848Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848Gadsden Purchase Treaty, 1853-854Early Newspaper Report on the Potential Riches in the Mines of Southern Arizona Near the Mexican Border, 18792 Civil War Border StrategyDocumentGeneral Grant Orders General Sheridan to Protect BorderBorderGeneral Grant Orders General Sheridan to Protect, 1865 Memoirs of General Philip Sheridan3Border UnrestDocumentsJuan Cortina the Case against Texas 1859Letter of Territorial Governor of Arizona to Attorney General of the United States on Border Violence in Arizona Territory, 1881Chinese Exclusion ActReport of Brigadier General George, 18834 Boom Towns along the BorderDocumentsJames Douglas and Railroad Construction: Extract fromHis Unpublished AutobiographOral History with Martha Jane Guthrie Bruemmer, Gadsden, Arizona, 20115 Mexico's Revolution and Violence on the BorderDocumentsReport from American Consulate in Nogales, Sonora, on Conditionsalong the Border, 1915Plan de San Diego, 1915Arizona Governor Offers Protection to Mexican Refugees, 1916Testimony of Texas Representative J. T. Canales on Depredations by Texas Rangers on Mexican Border, 1919 956 Patrolling the BorderDocumentsPresident Wilson Vetoes Immigration Legislation, 1915Report on Alien Smuggling at the Border, 1924Interview with Immigrant Gerardo Chavez, 1979Recollections of a Border Patrol Officer, David Blackwell, 1987California Apology Act for the 1930s Mexican Repatriation Program, 2005Reflections of Julian Hernandez, a Bracero Worker, 20107"Operation Wetback"DocumentsReport on Use of Wetbacks by Texas Farmers and RanchersSubmitted as Evidence to Commission on Migratory Labor,November 1949Report of Attorney General Herbert Brownell to Congress onOperation Wetback, 19568 Chicano Spirit on the BorderDocumentsHernandez v. Texas, Summary, 1954Ruben Salazars Stranger in Ones Land, 1970Interview with Herman Baca of the Committee on Chicano Rights,19809 Fences, Walls, and Boundary EnforcementDocumentsOperation Intercept Memorandum on Stopping DrugTrafficking, 1969Deaths in Border Crossings: A Report by the General AccountingOffice, 2006A Trek to a New Life: Excerpt, 201610 Smuggling, Guns, Drugs, and ViolenceDocumentsReflections of a Smuggler, 1991Carlos Morales: Immigrant Journey from El Salvador throughTijuana, MexicoTexas Department of Public Safety Threat Overview, 201711 NAFTA, Maquiladoras, and Border EconomicsDocumentsState Department on U.S. Relations with Mexico, 2017Trump Administration Objectives for NAFTA Renegotiation, 201712 Dreamers and the Politics of the BorderDocumentsSenator Richard Durbin (D-IL) Testimony before Senate on DACA, January 13, 2015Testimony of a Dreamer, Marie Nazareth Gonzalez, May 2007Response to President Trumps Congressional Joint Address by Dreamer Astrid Silva, February 28, 201713 Cross-Border Spirit and CooperationDocumentsInterview with Chicano Artist David Avalos, 1988in Attacking Drug Smuggling, 2016PostscriptBibliographyIndex