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ISBN-10: 0872866319
ISBN-13: 9780872866317
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 04/08/2014
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 0.80" H

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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

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Overview

Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of US Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for free society.

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"Todd Miller's powerful prose belies what one hopes is a growing sense of outrage at the inhuman and racist goals of U.S. border enforcement. His journeys from place to place and the complexities he presents within the Border Patrol itself provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of what's wrong in the United States. This is a book that should not be ignored."–Dawn Paley, Upside Down World

"If examined closely enough, the swollen border security complex also reveals who watches and who is watched. Miller has done us all a great service by helping to expose this dichotomy."–Aaron Cantu, Latino Rebels

" ... it is an important wake-up call for those who have not kept up with the morally troubling expansion of this mammoth security apparatus."–Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice

"Miller is not an armchair theorist. He has reported on border issues for a decade, including for the New York Times ... He writes of the people he sees as the victims of the Border Patrol's abrasiveness and also of the cruel deportation policy of the Obama administration that breaks up families ... But the book shows surprising sympathy for many agents who are required by their jobs to be enforcers of a tough system."–Tony Perry, Miami Herald

"Miller's approach in Border Patrol Nation is to offer a glimpse into the secretive operations of the Border Patrol, reporting with a journalist's objectivity and nose for a good story. Miller's book is full of facts, and it's clear he's outraged, but he gives voices to people on every side of the issue ... Miller's book is a fascinating read ... and bring the work of Susan Orlean to mind."–from interview with author by Amanda Eyre Ward, Kirkus Reviews

"[Miller] offers a vision of what the military-industrial complex looks like once it's transported, jobs and all, to the US-Mexican border and turned into a consumer mall for the post-9/11 era ... [it's] a striking and original picture."–Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

"Solid, absorbing reportage on the government's racist and constitutionally questionable notions of border security in the post-9/11 world ... An unsettling but important read."–Kirkus Reviews

"What Jeremy Scahill was to Blackwater, Todd Miller is to the U.S. Border Patrol!"–Tom Miller, author, On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

"Todd Miller has entered a secret world, and he has gone deep. If you want to learn about the Border Patrol's world, you will find this book informative and startling. I'm not sure the Border Patrol will like all that he has to say. But his is a moral work that wrestles with a huge story. Powerful."–Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway: A True Story

"Journalist Miller tells an alarming story of U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security's ever-widening reach into the lives of American citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented. He describes the militarization of the Border Patrol and concurrent dehumanizing of 'unauthorized' persons; American citizens routinely harassed and arrested in Constitution-free zones that extend 100 miles from all borders; the expulsion of a exemplary Border Patrol agent for expressing his Mexican identity in casual conversation; and the Border Patrol's Explorer Academy for children, which, with its lock-step marching, black boots, law-enforcement training, and indoctrination is eerily evocative of fascism and Hitler Youth. Miller reveals the 'complex and industrial world' looming behind the border patrol, spanning 'robotics, engineers, salespeople and detention centers' and the new generation of Explorers. 'It is the world in which we now live, ' he states, 'where eradicating border violations is given higher pr

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Details

ISBN-10: 0872866319
ISBN-13: 9780872866317
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publish Date: 04/08/2014
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.20" W, 0.80" H
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