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  • Sand and Blood

  • America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
  • By: John Carlos Frey
  • Narrated by: Gustavo Rex
  • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Sand and Blood

By: John Carlos Frey
Narrated by: Gustavo Rex
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A damning portrait of the US-Mexico border, where militaristic fantasies are unleashed, violent technologies are tested, and immigrants are targeted.

Over the past three decades, US immigration and border security policies have turned the southern states into conflict zones, spawned a network of immigrant detention centers, and unleashed an army of ICE agents into cities across the country.

As award-winning journalist John Carlos Frey reveals in this groundbreaking book, the war against immigrants has been escalating for decades, fueled by defense contractors and lobbyists seeking profits and politicians - Republicans and Democrats alike - who relied on racist fear-mongering to turn out votes. After 9/11, while Americans' attention was trained on the Middle East and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the War on Terror was ramping up on our own soil - aimed not at terrorists but at economic migrants, refugees, and families from South and Central America seeking jobs, safety, and freedom in the US.

The Border Patrol has grown exponentially, ICE detention centers have cropped up across the country, and the southern border is more militarized than ever before, but we are no safer. Instead, families are being ripped apart, undocumented people are living in fear, and thousands of migrants have died in detention or crossing the border.

Taking listeners to the border patrol outposts, unmarked graves, detention centers, and halls of power, Sand and Blood is a frightening, essential story we ignore at our peril.

©2019 John Carlos Frey (P)2019 Hachette Audio
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Learn about the border history

Learned a lot about how the border has become so militarized and didn’t need to

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We need change in this country!

it was one of the best books I've listened to in a long while. he describes from a different perspective how complex and corrupt our country has been in relation to immigration!

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