We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central

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MPN
9781786632173
Brand
Verso
Style
ABIS_BOOK
Color
Silver
ISBN
9781786632173
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1786632179
ISBN-13
9781786632173
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237671177

Product Key Features

Book Title
We Built the Wall : How the Us Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Emigration & Immigration, Human Rights, International Relations / General, Commentary & Opinion, International
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science
Author
Eileen Truax
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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Trade
LCCN
2018-023717
Reviews
Praise for Dreamers : "Compelling, honest, and personal, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the immigration debate." -- Booklist "A forthright, moving piece of advocacy journalism." -- Kirkus Reviews "Truax succeeds in conveying how a shadow status permeates the lives of all the young people profiled here, with education, employment opportunities, and essential social services severely limited or unavailable." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
325.73
Synopsis
A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican government From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward--98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum--his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calderón, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Rocío Hernández, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity., A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican government From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward--98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum--his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Sa l Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calder n, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Roc o Hern ndez, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity.
LC Classification Number
JV6483

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