Border Patrol Nation By Todd Miller 9780872866317 (Paperback)

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Human rights

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Wordery

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City lights publishers

Border Patrol Nation : City Lights Books : 9780872866317 : 0872866319 : 22 May 2014 : "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 "At the start of his unsettling and important new book, Border Patrol Nation, Miller observes that these days 'it is common to see the Border Patrol in places&;such as Erie, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; or Forks, Washington&;where only fifteen years ago it would have seemed far-fetched, if not unfathomab

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