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During the twentieth century, many Americans expressed concerns about the security surrounding the U.S.-Mexican border due to the lack of progress in achieving meaningful and effective immigration regulation and an inability to control growing drug trafficking. Despite publicly and privately striving for cooperation on these issues, Mexican and American policymakers struggled to arrive at viable and sustainable solutions. In The 1970s and the Making of the Modern US-Mexico Border: Building a Barrier, Aaron S. Brown analyzes the US drug and immigration policies from the 1960s to 1980s, how they applied to Mexico and the border, and how this shaped modern U.S. perceptions of border security. Brown utilizes archival research, newspapers, and other sources to investigate how US policymakers, border residents, and activists shaped policies aimed at eliminating rising crime, economic stagnation, and global insecurity. This book examines the origins of the ongoing US-Mexico border debate.

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This book is an important analysis of the sometimes-convoluted policies the United States has enacted at its southern border, and how these policies shaped political discourses in Washington and Mexico City. --Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University

A valuable account of the ongoing militarization of the US-Mexico border. Aaron Brown's The 1970s and the Making of the Modern US-Mexico Border is a detailed look at how, even as the United States was drawing down in Southeast Asia, it began building up in its own southwest, fortifying the borderlands at great human cost. This book is indispensable in making sense of today's crisis. --Greg Grandin, Yale University This book is an important analysis of the sometimes-convoluted policies the United States has enacted at its southern border, and how these policies have shaped political discourses in Washington and Mexico City. --Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University

A valuable account of the ongoing militarization of the United States-Mexico border. Aaron Brown's The 1970s and the Making of the Modern US-Mexico Border is a detailed look at how, even as the U.S. was drawing down in Southeast Asia, it began building up in its own southwest, fortifying the borderlands at great human cost. Indispensable in making sense of today's crisis. --Greg Grandin, Yale University This book is an important analysis of the sometimes-convoluted policies the United States has enacted at its southern border, and how these policies shaped political discourses in Washington and Mexico City. --Aileen Teague, Texas A&M University

A valuable account of the ongoing militarization of the US-Mexico border. Aaron Brown's The 1970s and the Making of the Modern US-Mexico Border is a detailed look at how, even as the United States was drawing down in Southeast Asia, it began building up in its own southwest, fortifying the borderlands at great human cost. This book is indispensable in making sense of today's crisis. This book is an important analysis of the sometimes-convoluted policies the United States has enacted at its southern border, and how these policies have shaped political discourses in Washington and Mexico City.

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Aaron Brown, PhD, is an independent historian.

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