The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Robert Lee Maril

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726800
• ISBN13: 9780896726802
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"