No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Description

Addresses the root causes of violence against immigrants which has become increasingly important in the current political period of polarization and anti-immigrant attacks. Davis is a respected authority on the history of the Mexico-California border and on immigrant workers. He has a following among activists and progressive academics. Includes powerful photographs, and informative maps and charts. The majority of California will soon be non-white; this trend is continuing to reshape politics nationally.

Justin Akers Chacon is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press).Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author many books, including City of Quartz, The Ecology of Fear, The Monster at Our Door, and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine, and lives in San Diego.