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Up Against the Wall
THE CASE FOR OPENING THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN BORDER
PETER LAUFER, PhD
Anthem Press
An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company
This edition first published in UK and USA 2020
by ANTHEM PRESS
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Copyright © Peter Laufer 2020
The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2020940396
ISBN-13: 978-1-78527-524-1 (Hbk)
ISBN-10: 1-78527-524-0 (Hbk)
This title is also available as an e-book.
Photographs and maps by the author.
para Sheila
con aprecio profundamente
y amor infinito
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface: Bienvenidos, Amigos
Foreword by former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox
Chapter 1.Up against the Wall (Expletive)
Chapter 2.Illegal Alien or Clever New American
Chapter 3.Still Life on the Border
Chapter 4.On Guard
Chapter 5.Death along for the Ride
Chapter 6.A Weary Lawyer’s View
Chapter 7.What Is a Border?
Chapter 8.Failed Borders
Chapter 9.U.S. Annexation of Half of Mexico
Chapter 10.Early Border Control
Chapter 11.The Historical Failure of Border Control
Chapter 12.The Vigilante Movement
Chapter 13.Americans Party South, Mexicans Struggle North
Chapter 14.The Porous, Shifting Border
Chapter 15.Illegal Americans
Chapter 16.On the Kentucky-Mexico Border
Chapter 17.Deportation Made Easier
Chapter 18. One Farmer Working by the Rules
Chapter 19. Who Wants the Border Closed?
Chapter 20.Burden or Benefit?
Chapter 21. The Long Road North from Chiapas and Chihuahua
Chapter 22.No Amigos in the White House
