The Border: Immigration and the B.O.P [Paperback]

Richard Alevizos (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 7, 2006

This book is about the border and the problems it presents. The author presents causes of the problems about the border and immigration. All of the stories are true, but the names have been changed to protect the guilty.The statistics about government policy and expenditures are included as food for thought. You will enjoy this interesting and easy read! If you dislike Ann Coulter and like Michael Moore you are going to love this book and author.

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About the Author

About the author: Richard Alevizos went to the Dexter School for Boys in Brookline, MA, the same private all boys school that John F. Kennedy went to. He attended the Middlesex Preparatory School in Concord, Ma. And then graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI with a degree from the College of Speech with a major in Spanish language. He spent years living abroad in such places as Greece, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico. He translated for all kinds of people and agencies and companies for years before he stopped. He eventually found he wanted to try to lead a simple life as a yoga teacher and forget about the rat race in the U.S.A. He is somewhere still trying to lead a simple life of peace and love and happiness. He continually strives to create more awareness in others in the hopes of helping the world break on through to peace, love and happiness in the not to distant future.

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (July 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419640690
• ISBN-13: 978-1419640698
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,429,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stories from the Border, September 7, 2006

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John H. Mctear "JohnHenry" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Border: Immigration and the B.O.P (Paperback)

One could tell this book is as informed as anybody in any think tank in Washington D.C. or on Wall Street. The facts infused within the anecdotal dialogue combined with the author's common sense and street smart give a whole new twist to the immigration debate. Why are we listening to a bunch of strictly white guys on Wall Street? And everybody knows Washington D.C. is out of touch with thegeneral populace.
As one review indicates, it leaves you hanging with that sense of what is next, but it's message pressages the immediacy of a solution to this problem before it gets more out of hand and more wasteful. This should leave the reader with a sense of urgency to resolve this problem so that more of the money that gets wasted can be diverted to worthy causes, like disaster relief, true disaster relief.
Awesome book, somoebody should make a movie of it

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Read..., September 5, 2006

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Jose Garcia (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Border: Immigration and the B.O.P (Paperback)

This was a very interesting book!! Much of the material presented was first-hand and anecdotal, and sometimes reads like a diary.. yet throughout the book, it also reads like a formal treatise on the subject at hand: our country's flagrant misuse of tax dollars, solely designed to administer unreasonable immigration control, and designed to uphold a clearly pork-barrel agenda to keep the lower classes lower and the upper classes upper.

As a staunch "centrist" who generally frowns on lefist conspiratorial blather, I was nontheless able to identify with the liberal slant of this book, for the simple reason that it mostly espouses simple truths about the matter at hand with regard to our prison system. In other words, after reading this novel, even a right-wing conservative has to admit: our prison system is completely out of hand. I was also impressed by the authors' knowledge of the hispanic culture(s?) and his general ability to capture the essense of our troubled lands "down south".

The author has lived a strange and particular tale, and unlike a vast majority of the prison populace, was able to put his experiences to paper, with the hopes that others might benefit from his ordeal. My only regret is that the book does not follow through on the ultimate outcomes of the authors' experiences as well as his subjects, and instead, leaves us all wondering, "what happens next"? A Great Read...

5.0 out of 5 stars An Indictment of the U.S. Prison System & One Man's Brave Survival, August 27, 2009

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J. Barrett (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Border: Immigration and the B.O.P (Paperback)

This is a first hand, potent glimpse of heroic survival in a U.S. prison expands far beyond the author's experiences. The Border: Immigration and the B.O.P. is a searing exposure of abuse of power within the U. S. courts and prison system, which shatters millions of lives to support the ever expanding for-profit business of incarceration in this country.
This story is rich with many rogue and inspirational characters, their tragic stories, how they cope with life behind bars. Life as a prisoner is revealed vividly; daily threats and violence, incomprehensible injustices, a perilous, hierarchical, overcrowded inmate society designed not to reform, but to keep the prisons filled with paying customers. The U.S. prison population has quadrupled in the last 25 years, many for non-violent crimes. As a percentage of the population, U.S. prisons hold more people than anywhere else in the world, by far. Are Americans really that bad, or is there a powerfully sinister judicial / prison system recklessly incarcerating the poor in this country? This book addresses this question and many more at a societal level.
At its essence this is a very personal account of how one enlightened and gutsy soul overcame countless challenges and injustices, rising above abhorrent circumstances, maintaining his dignity while still helping others. All with a generous slice of crafty chutzpah (standing in line to see the judge...on his head!)
A story of redemption and a suspenseful read, to be sure. Not until the end do you truly find out the depth of the author, his myriad life experiences, a true warrior against injustice. Looking forward to more from Richard Alevizos.