T. C. Boyle - A digital scrap-book about "The Tortilla Curtain"
- T. Coraghessan Boyle: from fiction to reality -
- About the real Tortilla Curtain
- T. Coraghessan Boyle: from fiction to reality -
- About the real Tortilla Curtain
- Endstation für Träume
Von Teja Fiedler und Sebastiao Salgado (Fotos)- from: www.stern.de
Quelle: Stern-Ausgabe: 37 vom 03-09-1998 Seite: 74 I
Jack's Joint - The Tortilla Curtain (Fotos)
- An agent in Sunland Park finds a Mexican national trying to enter
the US was carrying plane tickets from El Paso to Salt Lake City,
Utah. Dusk and the hours immediately following sunset are called
"Rush Hour" by the Border Patrol because that is when most people- try to sneak into the US.
- "This section is an ongoing project. I will add updates as I make new images along the border.":
The photographer's homepage (quite interesting)
Links
On tour with the US border patrol: http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1934/test.html
- THE BORDER PATROL: The Original Border Patrol WebSite
- http://www.usbp.com/ (careful!)
- U.S. Border Control: articles and reports on immigration issues http://WWW.USBC.ORG/info/articles.htm (careful!)
U.S. Border Control is a non-profit, tax-exempt, citizens lobby, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Border Control is dedicated to ending illegal immigration by securing our nation's borders and reforming our border and immigration policies. Our organization receives no financial support from any branch of government. All our support comes from concerned citizens who appreciate the work we are doing and wish to see it continue.
from: http://WWW.USBC.ORG/organiz/whowe.htm
Have a look at "Our Mission", please, and "Goals": "USBC intends to wage an all-out campaign to expose all those who profit from illegal immigration and help Congress to put a stop to this activity. We believe that a drastic reduction in illegal immigration can be accomplished by the following means: (...)".
Newspaper articles, CNN-sites, etc.:
http://cnn.com/US/9608/23/gatekeeper.probe/index.htm
http://clui.zone.org/clui/site_ext/perimete/brdrsd.html
http://cnn.com/US/9605/02/immigration.update/index.html
http://cnn.com/US/9603/immigration/18/index.html
http://www.heraldpost.com/news/97/march/29/border.html
- "How the California G.O.P Got a Spanish Lesson (May 18, 1998)
- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980518/nation.how_the_californi28.html
- "School's Out?" A House bill would deny educatio to illegal aliens (April 1, 1996)
- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1996/dom/960401/immigration.html
- "Immigration - Dangerous Tides" A new wave of illegal aliens is finding a perilous and expensive route into the United States" (April 10, 1995)
- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1995/950410/950410.immigration.html
- "The Unwelcome Mat" As the Proposition 187 debate roars, the U. S. begins an intensive effort to seal off a 2,000-mile border (November 28, 1994)
- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/941128/941128.immigration.html
- "Alienable Rights" (October 31, 1994)
- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/941031/941031.publiceye.html
- "Keep Out, you Tired, you Poor... Around the country, and especially in California, outrage over immigration is becoming electoral dynamite" (October 3, 1994)
- http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/941003/941003.politics.html
- WRITING THE TORTILLA CURTAIN
- BY FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
It's all about finding that slipstream through traffic jams of thought and feeling.
Monday evening and I'm in the usual Tijuana border jam-up waiting to prove my US-ness. I'm on my way to catch a plane back to Oaktown after spending the weekend at C.H.I.P.A.S., the hospital where my mom's being treated for bone and liver cancer. It's a good night for la migra, who are holding up los morenos, the darker ones. Inching through the mile-long stretch to the proverbial "Tortilla Curtain" I pass US-issue Dodge Ramchargers, belligerent prosthetic extensions of the panoptic border station. I pass descendants of the Chinanteca, Mixteca, Guasave, and Maya nations scurrying for the survival, Chiclets in hand; and I wrestle with the memory of the doctor's "lots of prayer my friend." But that's
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