Why read Migra! A History of the U.S. Border?

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This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernandez dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages,…

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1 author picked Migra! A History of the U.S. Border as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Reece Jones

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This one takes us back to the founding of the Border Patrol to look at its Wild West origins. The first agents were plucked from frontier law enforcement and the Texas Rangers, whose earlier tasks included slave patrols and the violent removal of Native Americans. Lytle Hernandez shows how those racist and violent origins shaped the practices of the early Border Patrol.

From Reece's list on The best books on the US Border Patrol.