Beschreibung:
"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics … Miller's book arrives at a moment when it appears that part of the Homeland Security apparatus is backpedaling by promising to tone down its tactics, maybe prodded by investigative journalism, maybe by the revelations of NSA leaker Edward Snowden … Border Patrol is quite possibly the right book at the right time … "-Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
Contents Introduction- The Super Patrol I. Bounding the Homeland 1. The Complex-Builders 2. Doing Nice Things for Children 3. The Way We Think 4. Unfinished Business in Indian Country II. Re-locating the Border 5. On the Canadian Front 6. The American Homeland is the Planet 7. Hidden in Plain Sight III. Making Borderline Citizens 8. The South Carolina Super Citizen 9. Citizens in Name Only Conclusion- The Real War at HomeIndexAbout the Author