Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2010.

In "Migra! A History of the U.S Border Patrol", By Kelly Lytle Hernandez, she explores the controversial issue today known as the dissension that surrounds our border with Mexico. Hernandez also outlines the policies and ideology of the U.S Border Patrol that were discovered and really brought out in the early 1920s through the 1930s. Not only did the Border Patrol matter in the nineteenth century, it has built up tension throughout our history including this past year, it has never not been an irrelevant subject. Hernandez does a detailed research on the beginning to what becomes the authorized United States Border Patrol. After the U.S-Mexico war it declared not only victory to the United States but it also drew a new line, the border. By the mid 1920s, the Border Patrols focal point …show more content…
Although the laws exiled and "prohibited from entering the U.S included all Asians, illiterates, prostitutes, criminals, idiots, and paupers" but, unlike them, Mexicans in the last 1920s could freely migrate into the United States (p. 27). Mexicans were the focal point of U.S. immigration law enforcement when Border Patrol officers disrupted their authority on border crossings keep any big number of Mexican laborers out of United States. Hernandez shows how the first Border Patrol came mostly from these poor Anglo experiences and had a labor competition. The Border Patrol also seemed to have absorbed an important number of former Texans and only many of them had a suspicion on Mexicans with them to the federals. Bases on the key examples in "Migra! A History of The U.S Border Patrol" Hernandez victoriously explains the Mexican and U.S governments policies to manage the migration of all the immigrants between their