No one is illegal : fighting racism and state violence on the U.S.-Mexico border

In No One Is Illegal Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Countering the mounting chorus of anti-immigrant voices, No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their deep roots in U.S. history, and documents the new civil rights movement that has mounted protests around the country to demand justice and dignity for immigrants.Moderator - Bunch of Crap. Drugs, Human Trafficking, potential terrorist threat, crime, open borders - immigrants like my family worked hard to get here and become citizens legally and thus have time to assimulate into the culture and most of all appreciate this country! Spin the definition anyway you want. An immigrant is illegal if they did not go through the process! Smarten Up!!

Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States.

This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash.

Justin Akers Chacón is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class.

Mike Davis is the author many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums.

No One Is Illegal convincingly debunks the leading ideas behind the often-violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.