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Operation Gatekeeper And Beyond:

The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
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Routledge, 2002 - Social Science - 286 pages
By 1994 American anti-immigration rhetoric had reached a fevered pitch, and throngs of migrants entered the U.S. nightly. In response, the INS launched "Operation Gatekeeper," the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's unprecedented effort to "regain control" of our borders. In Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins details the administration's dramatic overhaul of the San Diego-Tijauna border-the busiest land crossing in the world-adding miles of new fence and hundreds of trained agents.

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Review: Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the US-Mexico Boundary

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This book discusses the origins and significance of Operation Gatekeeper—an intensified policing strategy of the then-US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) along the US-Mexico boundary in ... Read full review

Review: Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the US-Mexico Boundary

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Nevins has written an important text on the US/Mexico border/boundary but his writing is dry and he is sorely lacking an analysis of gender that is so essential in fully understanding the situation.

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About the author (2002)

Joseph Nevins is an accomplished journalist whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. He currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley Mike Davis is a contributing editor to The Nation and Professor of History at SUNY Stony Brook. He is the author of four books, including Magical Urbanism and City of Quartz.

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