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How do we balance border security and The us’s need for an important workforce even as continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, america has often ramped up security along the United States-Mexico border, transforming The us’s legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting with migrants, border security advocates, and communities ravaged by cross-border crime. Eichstaedt finds that despite tens of thousands of border agents and the expenditure of billions of dollars, an estimated one million Mexicans and Central Americans continue to cross the border each and every year. These migrants fill jobs that have turn out to be the underpinnings of the United States economy. Fairly than building a wall, or more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that america should reform its immigration and drug laws and acknowledge that costly, counterproductive, and antiquated policies have created deadly circumstances on both sides of the border.