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"Unsettling is a sharp, uncompromising interrogation of the transformation of the southern edge of the United States into a zone of migrant sacrifice and suffering, which culminates in a racist mass execution of twenty-two people in August 2019 in El Paso, Texas"-- Provided by publisher.

"Documents the cruel immigration policies and treatment toward border crossers on the US-Mexico border.On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. In Unsettling, Gilberto Rosas situates this devastating shooting as the latest unsettling consequence of our border crisis and currents of deeply rooted white nationalism embedded in the United States. Tracing strict immigration policies and inhumane border treatment from the Clinton era through Democratic and Republican administrations alike, Rosas shows how the rhetoric around these policies helped lead to the Trump administration's brutal crackdown on migration-and the massacre in El Paso. Rosas draws on poignant stories and compelling testimonies from workers in immigrant justice organizations, federal public defenders, immigration attorneys, and human rights activists in order to document the cruelties and indignities inflicted on border crossers. Borders, as sites of crossings and spaces long inhabited by marginalized populations, generate deep anxiety across much of the contemporary world. Rosas demonstrates how the Trump administration amplified and weaponized immigration and border policy, including family separation, torture, and murder. None of this dehumanization and violence was inevitable, however. The border zone in El Paso (which translates to "the Pass") was once a very different place, one marked by frequent and inconsequential crossings to and from both sides-and with more humane immigration policies, it could become that once again"-- Provided by publisher.

Kindling

Interlude: white supremacy in El Paso before August 3, 2019 / Diana Martinez

The lloronx

Witnessing torture

Witnessing the Joaquin dead

Grief and border crossing rage

On the banality of crossing

Afterword: Rifling in the unsettling present

Selected interviews and testimonies

Statement of Barbara Hines, JD

Father Robert Mosher interview

Virginia Raymond interview

Declaration of Luis H. Zayas, PhD.

Emigration and immigration > Government policy.

Social justice > United States.

Emigration and immigration > Government policy.

Mexican-American Border Region > Government policy > United States.

North America > Mexican-American Border Region.