Author: Texas. Department of TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Texas-Mexico International Border Crossings
Author: Texas. Department of TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Clandestine Crossings
Author: David SpenerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801460395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.
International Bridge Crossings Along the United States-Mexico Border from El Paso to Brownsville
Author: International Bridge Crossings Along the United States - Mexico Border from El Paso to Brownsville, TX, Programmatic EIS
Author: Texas-Mexico ITS Border Assessment
Author: Eric LindquistPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Existing and Proposed International Bridges and Border Crossings
Author: Border Crossings of Mexico
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230655345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 102. Chapters: Belize-Mexico border crossings, Guatemala-Mexico border crossings, Mexico - United States border crossings, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Laredo, Texas, Brownsville, Texas, Del Rio, Texas, Calexico, California, Nogales, Arizona, Douglas, Arizona, Naco, Arizona, Presidio, Texas, Hidalgo, Texas, Los Ebanos, Texas, San Diego-Tijuana, Mexicali, Nuevo Laredo, El Paso-Juarez, List of Mexico - United States border crossings, Piedras Negras, Coahuila, San Luis, Arizona, Eagle Pass, Texas, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Ciudad Acuna, San Ysidro, San Diego, List of crossings of the Rio Grande, United States Border Patrol Interior Checkpoints, Sonoyta, Nogales, Sonora, Los Algodones, San Luis Rio Colorado, San Ysidro Land Port of Entry Expansion Project, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Garitas, Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Ojinaga Municipality, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Laredo Municipality, Otay Mesa, San Diego, Suchiate, Tecate, Tecate, California, Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, Chiapas, Agua Prieta, Andrade, California, Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, Lukeville, Arizona, Garita Kilometro 26, Puente Rodolfo Robles, San Jeronimo, Chihuahua, Ambos Nogales, Consejo. Excerpt: Laredo (pronounced -doh; Spanish: ) is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, located on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091 making it the 3rd largest on the United States-Mexican border, after San Diego, California and El Paso, Texas. Laredo is part of the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area with an estimate population of 636,516. Laredo's economy is based on international trade with Mexico. Most major transportation companies have a facility in Laredo. Laredo's location along the southern end of I-35 close to the manufacturers in North Mexico...
Run for the Border
Author: Steven W. BenderPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814723225
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream: the possibility of a better livelihood through hard work. To supply each other’s demands, Americans and Mexicans have to cross their shared border from both sides. Despite this relationship, U.S. immigration reform debates tend to be security-focused and center on the idea of menacing Mexicans heading north to steal abundant American resources. Further, Congress tends to approach reform unilaterally, without engaging with Mexico or other feeder countries, and, disturbingly, without acknowledging problematic southern crossings that Americans routinely make into Mexico. In Run for the Border, Steven W. Bender offers a framework for a more comprehensive border policy through a historical analysis of border crossings, both Mexico to U.S. and U.S. to Mexico. In contrast to recent reform proposals, this book urges reform as the product of negotiation and implementation by cross-border accord; reform that honors the shared economic and cultural legacy of the U.S. and Mexico. Covering everything from the history of Anglo crossings into Mexico to escape law authorities, to vice tourism and retirement in Mexico, to today’s focus on Mexican border-crossing immigrants and drug traffickers, Bender takes lessons from the past 150 years to argue for more explicit and compassionate cross-border cooperation. Steeped in several disciplines, Run for the Border is a blend of historical, cultural, and legal perspectives, as well as those from literature and cinema, that reflect Bender’s cultural background and legal expertise.
Border Towns and Border Crossings
Author: Roger BrunsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This is a compelling and revealing look at the history of the U.S.-Mexico border as a place, a symbol of cross-cultural melding, and a source of growing anxiety over immigration and national security. The U.S.-Mexico border is far more than a line that separates two countries. A winding path of nearly 2,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, it is history, commerce, and culture. In recent years, however, attitudes about border crossings and border issues have hardened as has immigration policy. A source of growing anxiety over illegal immigration, national security, and safety, the border has become a symbol of political cataclysm over immigration law and enforcement, the future of DACA, the increasingly harsh treatment of refugees and others who attempt to cross without authorization, and the future of U.S. policy. This book traces the history of the border and its people, from the creation of the border line to explosive issues surrounding immigration and the future of the United States as a nation of diverse cultures and races.
Where North Meets South
Author: Lawrence A. HerzogPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292790537
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).