No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Justin Akers Chacón, Mike Davis

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No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.

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It is rare to come across a book so rich with the blistering truths that haunt the migrant worker. In this two part book Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis try to unravel the roots of conservative pseudo-populism, and vigilante violence in California, as well as show the grinding capitalist machine forcing millions across the desert for mere subsistence.

Heavy indictments are laid upon the system in this book, things that can be seen in the very documents American congressmen and lawmakers have drawn up. The system is so full of antagonisms and contradictions one scarcely knows where to begin, Chacon and Davis guide through the many hideous programs that force the worker into a hellish limbo.

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Justin Akers Chacon is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California
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Mike Davis is the author of many books, including City of Quartz, The Monster at Our Door, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego.

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Original publication date
2006
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Mexican-U.S. border

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
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304.8Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologyFactors affecting social behaviorMovement of people
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JV6456 .A38Political ScienceColonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migrationColonies and colonization. Emigration andEmigration and immigration. InternationalUnited States
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