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"A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."-Susan Faludi

"[Davis' writing is] perceptive and rigorous."-David Montgomery, The Nation

"[Davis' work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."-The Village Voice

"[Davis' work is] eloquent and passionate."-Tariq Ali

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

Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices, Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacn expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States.

Davis and Akers Chacn challenge the racist politics of vigilante groups like the Minutemen, and argue for a pro-immigrant and pro-worker agenda that recognizes the urgent need for international solidarity and cross-border alliances in building a renewed labor movement.

Writer, historian, and activist Mike Davis is the author of 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. Davis is the recipient of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award and the World History Association Book Award.

Justin Akers Chacn is 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).

Rating : - Vapid Marxist drivel exhorts reconquering America and forcing the 3rd world on it.
Ok so I read most of this trash at the book store since I am saving my money to make a Minuteman donation as soon as possible. Basically, if you are a follower of extreme leftist views, an internationalist, hate the US, worship George Soros, this IS the book for you.

The author thinks his historically-based arguments somehow create an excuse to disregard American laws today, and that to enforce our borders is akin to the SS storm troopers kicking in doors to drag to Jews to the camps. Unfortunately, his rhetoric falls far short of the goal to tug at MY heart strings. All the border-enforcement supporters want is that the economy draining dregs from the 3rd world go back to whence they came. Sure they want a better life, but how about working on their own country rather than breaking in, and having the nerve to DEMAND that tax money go to educate, heal, and imprison them, as well as have the right to pop out anchor-babies at a frightening rate so that they're nice and safe here, all the while sending BILLIONS to Mexico et al.

Racism? Hmmmm how does the obligatory race card change the secured-borders argument? The drain on the economy argument? The cultural decline argument? Failure to assimilate argument? So all you starry-eyed multiculturalists, all-loving and full of-goodness, self-loathing full of white guilt, just remember MOST of this country agrees with me. It will be a fact that THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ILLEGAL ALIENS, and deported they will continue to be. If I could deport this book... Europe this country will never be.