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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. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an abandoned factory, and in U.S. and Mexican archives.
Focusing on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands 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 Mexicans in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
"If you had to choose one book as a starting place for an intelligent discussion about immigration issues, you would do well to begin with Migra! by UCLA assistant professor of history Kelly Lytle Hernandez. It is surprisingly complex and nuanced."-Tucson Weekly
"A Useful resource for any scholar seeking to understand the complex dynamics of race, migration, and law in the twentieth century."-Law & History Review
List of Illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region | p. xvi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Formation | p. 17 |
The Early Years | p. 19 |
A Sanctuary of Violence | p. 45 |
The California-Arizona Borderlands | p. 70 |
Mexico's Labor Emigrants, America's Illegal Immigrants | p. 83 |
Transformation | p. 101 |
A New Beginning | p. 103 |
The Corridors of Migration Control | p. 125 |
Uprising: A Farmers' Rebellion | p. 151 |
Operation Wetback and Beyond | p. 169 |
The Triumphs of '54 | p. 171 |
“The Day of the Wetback Is Over” | p. 196 |
Epilogue | p. 218 |
Notes | p. 235 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 285 |
Index | p. 299 |
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