| Description |
1 online resource (28 pages) |
| Contents |
What the wall's price tag would be -- Why the wall wouldn't stop smuggling -- What the wall would mean for crime in the U.S. -- How the wall would hurt the U.S. economy -- What the wall would do to communities and the environment |
| Summary |
In her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of construction. Felbab-Brown explains the importance of the United States' relationship with Mexico, on which the U.S. relies for cooperation on security, environmental, agricultural, water-sharing, trade, and drug smuggling issues. The author uses her extensive on-the-ground experience in Mexico to illustrate the environmental and community disruption that the construction of a wall would cause, while arguing that the barrier would do nothing to stop illicit flows into the United States. She recalls personal interviews she has had with people living in border areas, including a woman whose family relies on remittances from the U.S., a teenager trying to get out of a local gang, and others |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Walls -- Mexican-American Border Region
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Border security -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region
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Immigration enforcement -- Social aspects -- Mexican-American Border Region
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Border security -- Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigration enforcement -- Social aspects
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Walls
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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Mexico
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0815732961 |
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9780815732969 |
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9780815732952 |
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0815732953 |
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