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The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement

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This book is horrible. I had to read it for a global studies college course, and its completely one-sided. There are numerous typos and the author seems to think that run-on sentences make for easy reading. I wonder if the book was ever edited before it was published.

This book is written by a biased author who apparently sides unabashedly with the open borders crowd. He doesn't even try to be objective in his study of the issue, it's all one sided. Don't give this fool any of your money.

After coming across this book on a mark-down shelf, I'm astounded its price here is $45-$50; obviously, this hefty li'l brick is a standard textbook in Chicano studies classes. Since "multiculturalism" now has achieved totemic status in American academia (among the self-celebratory "cultures" studying themselves, that is), I guess the price is mandated to captive audiences of such pointless indoctination.

Unless you're Trotsky's mom, you're in for a long, hard slog. Navarro seems to think there's a blood-drenched war going on along the border, with vicious gringo "nativists" squashing flatter than tortillas the dreams of put-upon (if illegal) immigrants. Of course, the only thing that can save the day is dumping capitalism and seeking revolutionary consensus of... like... workers. Maybe? The proletariat?... Whatever they're called today, I guess. Like I said, this book is as subtle as a falling anvil and cheery as the flu.

The problems of illegal immigration are complicated, and the violence along the border today mostly is caused by drug gangs from Mexico. Racist violence in this country is front-page EVENT - inadvertently underlining the relative rarity of such outrages. If it was prevalent along the border, we'd have movies, marches and 24-hour Susan Sarandon by now.

The most compelling immigration crisis right now is the phenomenon's disastrous effects on domestic labor - especially unionization - and the exploitaation of the "illegals" themselves by American employers, free to work them long hours for peanuts. Navarro should drop the failed "revolutionary" gibberish and confront reality. This book is obsolete, and tired.