Sand and Blood
America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
$58.67
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2019
Summary
The unofficial war on the US-Mexico border has turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned a network of immigrant detention centers, and unleashed an army of ICE agents into every town and city in America.
As award-winning journalist John Carlos Frey reveals in this groundbreaking book, this conflict has been escalating for decades. Politicians, defense contractors, and lobbyists laid the groundwork for it in the 1980s and 1990s. After 9⁄11, while Americans’ attention…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781568588476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 156858847X |
| Author: | John Carlos Frey |
| Publisher: | Bold Type Books |
| Imprint: | Bold Type Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 460g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 158mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
”[A] searing eyewitness report”– Foreign Affairs
”[A] searing eyewitness report”–Foreign Affairs“A must-read book for any American citizen interested in breaking down immigration rhetoric on both sides of the aisle…It is imperative that we come to understand the factors that drive people to cross the border…Frey’s work is a crucial step in that direction.”–AmeriQuests
About The Author
John Carlos Frey
John Carlos Frey is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. A three-time Emmy Award winner, he is a special correspondent for The Marshall Project and PBS NewsHour, and a longtime Investigative Fund journalist at The Nation Institute. His investigative work has been featured on 60 Minutes, PBS, and Dan Rather Reports, and in the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Salon, Need to Know online, the Washington Monthly, and El Diario. His documentary films include The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon, The Invisible Chapel, The 800 Mile Wall, and The Real Death Valley. He is the 2012 recipient of the Scripps Howard Award and the Sigma Delta Chi award for his Investigative Fund/PBS reporting on the excessive use of force by the US Border Patrol.
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