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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tony Payan |
| ISBN: | 027598818X 9780275988180 |
| OCLC Number: | 65207081 |
| Description: | xv, 164 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The three border wars : A tale with two sides ; The meaning of the border ; The frontier era ; The customs era ; The law enforcement era ; The national security border ; The closing of the border ; Our lives in the hands of others ; A democratic deficit ; Conflating the issues ; Planning to secure the border: same old, same old ; Are the three border wars justified? ; The scope of the book -- The drug war on the border : A bird's eye view ; Economics and geography ; It's economics ; The explanatory power of a standard map ; The beginning of the war ; Between business and war ; Bureaucrats versus drug cartels: unequal enemies ; Modus smugglandi ; The port of entry versus the non-port of entry axis ; The people versus the vehicles axis ; The NAFTA connection ; The C-TPAT ; The narco-tunnels ; Corrupting the warriors ; The protective shield of the border police ; Victimizing the criminals with bribes ; Violence and the drug trafficking business ; Competition: violence between cartels ; Competition: intra-cartel violence ; Taking sides: the Mexican government ; "Plata o plomo": silver or lead ; Disciplining the workforce ; Random violence: the exception to the rule ; The Sicarios ; Handling the disloyal ; Money and drugs: north and south ; The media and the drug war ; The wealth of drugs: on narco mansions and narco-juniors ; The big cartels versus the small time players ; The border geographic of the drug war ; Conclusion -- Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border : The scene at the border ; The beginning ; The breaking point: 1986 ; A failed logic for a failed war ; The balloon effect ; The dead ; Build it and they will come ; The backside of economic development ; It's economics, stupid! ; The legal side ; Mothers and their babies ; How they come ; The old crossers: how times change ; Humpty dumpty and the border ; The more things change, the more they stay the same ; Operation hold the line ; Good fences make good neighbors ; Empowering the coyotes ; The crossing card trick ; NAFTA and undocumented immigration ; OTM: other than Mexicans ; Other modus operandi ; The militarization of the border ; Law enforcement and escalation ; Deterrence and escalation ; The illegal document industry ; The attrition argument ; The U.S. military and the border ; All the border's a stage ; The American public ; The minutemen ; Border political grandstanding ; A new approach is needed -- Conclusion -- Homeland Security and the border : The war on terror comes to the border ; The border and the immediate aftermath of September 11 ; Diagnosing the failure of September 11 ; Immigration failure ; Economic integration, trade and border security ; Arizona and New Mexico ; Damn those bureaucrats! ; Intelligence failure and the border ; Conflating the issues ; Reorganizing for border security ; A nagging question ; New immigration procedures ; Consequences of the new immigration procedures ; New trade procedures ; The consequences of the new security trade system ; The value added by the new trade procedures ; The inordinate burden on border residents ; The costs of Homeland Security at the border to the taxpayer ; Back to normalcy? ; The treatment of border crossers -- Conclusion -- The panopticon border : Technology and the panopticon border ; Militarization of the border ; The border as a symbol of a reluctant partnership ; Agent González and the problem with the problem ; The definition of border security ; The construction of security ; Unhelpful rhetoric ; Talking past each other at the border ; A new approach is needed ; The North American Free Trade Agreement and the border ; The North American solution ; Defining a North American community ; The North American security bubble ; Bureaucratic politics and the border ; The border reinstated ; The border is the future of America ; No end in sight ; Conclusion. |
| Other Titles: | Three United States-Mexico border wars |
| Responsibility: | Tony Payan ; foreword by Ed Williams. |
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- Smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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- United States -- Relations -- Mexico.
- Mexico -- Relations -- United States.
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- Mexican-American Border Region -- Politics and government.
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