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Buffett, Howard G. author.
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Drug control -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Drug traffic -- Mexico.
Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Border security -- United States.
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Our 50-state border ...
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Our 50-state
border
crisis : how the Mexican
border
fuels the
drug
epidemic across America / Howard G. Buffett.
by
Buffett, Howard G. author.
Subjects
Drug
control
--
Mexican-American
Border
Region
.
Drug
traffic
--
Mexico.
Human smuggling
--
Mexican-American
Border
Region
.
Border
security
--
United States.
Mexico
--
Emigration and immigration
--
Government policy.
United States
--
Emigration and immigration
--
Government policy.
Publisher Info:
New York : Hachette Books, 2018.
©2018
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxviii, 356 pages, [16] pages of color plates : map ; 24 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780316476614
0316476617
9781478994596
9780316476584
Contents:
Foreword by Senator Heidi Haitkamp
--
Part I: Costs and consequences. Red Shoes "walk up" ; Lights off, pistols ready ; Stepping on the balloon ; An expensive juggling act ; Sanctuaries and "slam dunks" ;
Drug
cartels and Decaturs ; What about demand? ; Too much, too fast ; Barriers
--
Part II: Countries of origin. Red Shoes Honduras ; Stolen harvests ; Two-legged predators ; Prison or the cemetery ; Silencing the canary ; Red Shoes on the road again
--
Part III: What needs to change. Reboot command of the
border
; Respect and work with Mexico ; Create a persistent presence ; Reduce demand for drugs and illegal labor ; Support peace and security in our hemisphere
--
Epilogue: Orange Shoes in Arizona.
Format Book:
Summary:
"From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico
border
. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing
border
policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern
border
in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts and migrants into
drug
mules--and killing us in record numbers. People often talk about America's insecure borders and our raging opioid crisis as if they are separate issues. To Buffett, a landowner on the U.S.
border
with Mexico and, after five years as a sworn law enforcement officer, now the sheriff of Macon County, Illinois, the two are intimately connected. Ineffective
border
policies not only put residents in
border
states like Texas and Arizona in harm's way, they put American lives in states such as Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont at risk. Mexican cartels have grown astonishingly powerful by exploiting both the gaps in our
border
security strategy and the desperation of migrants--all while profiting enormously off America's growing addiction to drugs. The solution isn't a wall. In this groundbreaking and vivid book, Buffett takes readers to the rugged terrain of the Arizona and Texas
border
country, where the drama and heartbreak of
drug
smuggling and migrant crossings play out every day. He also takes us to Mexico and El Salvador, showing how devastating poverty and cartel violence spur migration. Supplemented by sixteen pages of Buffett's own photography, [this book] outlines a realistic, effective, and bipartisan approach to fighting cartels, strengthening our national security, and tackling the roots of the chaos south of the
border
."--Dust jacket.
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