Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide

by Peter Andreas

Book Overview

The U.S.-Mexico border is the busiest in the world, the longest and most dramatic meeting point of a rich and poor country, and the site of intense confrontation between law enforcement and law evasion. Border control has changed in recent years from a low-maintenance and politically marginal activity to an intensive campaign focusing on drugs and migrant labor. Yet the unprecedented buildup of border policing has taken place in an era otherwise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475406
• ISBN13: 9780801475405
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great read

This book really gives a different view to the policing on the Mexican Border and how the United States has evoked many of the events that lead to the consequences we are now dealing with. The author has many resources and is very credited.

Wake up America, and smell the Government Corruption!

What the heck is our Congress thinking of???? This book clearly lays out how easy it will be for terrorist to get us by easily crossing the border at will. Why is this still so??? If you like this book you should also read, "U.S. Customs, Badge of Dishonor" another narrative of our Government's border blunders.