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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: three U.S.-Mexico border wars
    sub title: drugs, immigration, and Homeland Security
  title info:
    title: Three United States-Mexico border wars
  name:
    name part: Payan, Tony
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 164 pages ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: The three border wars -- A tale with two sides -- The meaning of the border -- The frontier era -- The customs era -- The law enforcement era -- The national security border -- The closing of the border -- Our lives in the hands of others -- A democratic deficit -- Conflating the issues -- Planning to secure the border: same old, same old -- Are the three border wars justified? -- The scope of the book -- The drug war on the border -- A bird's eye view -- Economics and geography -- It's economics -- The explanatory power of a standard map -- The beginning of the war -- Between business and war -- Bureaucrats versus drug cartels: unequal enemies -- Modus smugglandi -- The port of entry versus the non-port of entry axis -- The people versus the vehicles axis -- The NAFTA connection -- The C-TPAT -- The narco-tunnels -- Corrupting the warriors -- The protective shield of the border police -- Victimizing the criminals with bribes -- Violence and the drug trafficking business -- Competition: violence between cartels -- Competition: intra-cartel violence -- Taking sides: the Mexican government -- Plata o plomo: silver or lead -- Disciplining the workforce -- Random violence: the exception to the rule -- The Sicarios -- Handling the disloyal -- Money and drugs: north and south -- The media and the drug war -- The wealth of drugs: on narco mansions and narco juniors -- The big cartels versus the small time players -- The border geographic of the drug war -- Conclusion -- Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border -- The scene at the border -- The beginning -- The breaking point: 1986 -- A failed logic for a failed war -- The balloon effect -- The dead -- Build it and they will come -- The backside of economic development -- It's economics, stupid! -- The legal side -- Mothers and their babies -- How they come -- The old crossers: how times change -- Humpty dumpty and the border -- The more things change, the more they stay the same -- Operation hold the line -- Good fences make…
  note: Tony Payan ; foreword by Ed Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-160) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Smuggling
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Drug traffic
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Illegal aliens
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Relations
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
    topic: Relations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    topic: Ethnic relations
  classification: HV5831.M46 T49 2006
  classification: 363.0972/1
  identifier: 027598818X (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2006009796
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006009796.html
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    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0611/2006009796.html
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 060322
    record change date: 20151104060434.0
    record identifier: in00002180870