Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (Volume 29) (American Crossroads)

Political awareness of the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations is rising in the twenty-first century; the American history of its treatment of illegal immigrants represents a massive failure of the promises of the American dream. This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force that continuously draws intense scrutiny and denunciations from political activism groups. To tell this story, MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records and bits of biography stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives. Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the Mexican border and bringing to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics, Migra! reveals how the U.S. Border Patrol translated the mandate for comprehensive migration control into a project of policing immigrants and undocumented “aliens” in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. 

• City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (Justice, Power, and Politics)
• Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America)
• Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border (America in the World)
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel (Chicana Matters Series)
• Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)
• Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
• American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
• The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas