mexican-american border region

Examines the 1995 murder of a DEA agent's brother and its relationship to the Fuentes drug ring, the governments of Mexico and the U.S., and the "war on drugs.".

Presents a comprehensive account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement through the life story of a young migrant who dies in the California desert.

Desperate to escape haunting memories, J. D. Jessup travels from Nashville to Tucson and volunteers on an organic farm. The hardened landowner has one prevailing rule: If J. D. sees an "illegal," call the border patrol. But when an early morning ride along the fence line leads him to a beautiful young woman named Maria, near death in the desert, his heart pulls him in another direction. Longing to atone for the choices that drove him to Tucson, J. D. hides her and unleashes a chain of deadly events he could never have imagined. Soon they are running from a killer and fighting for their lives. As secrets of their pasts emerge, J. D. realizes that saving Maria may be the only way to save himself.

Chronicles the true story of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the southern Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway, describing how the men struggled to survive the desert's harsh conditions and why only twelve survived the journey.

When Fabiola's sister Alexis joins her at Dos Rios High, she warns her away from the troublemaking superjock Dex Andrews, but Alexis does not listen, and soon it is up to Fabiola to make things right, even if it means breaking her sister's heart.

Recounts the case of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a region called Devil's Highway and were betrayed by a smuggler.

Efforts by U.S. Major Richter and his high-tech special operations unit to control drug traffic and illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border are complicated by drug kingpin and migrant smuggler Ernesto Fuerza, a right-wing radio talk-show host, and the discovery that Fuerza is backed by Richter's long-time nemesis, Soviet terrorist Yegor Zakharov.

Investigates the reality of the proposed 2,000-mile-long border 'fence' between the United States and Mexico.

U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta worked in high stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico's immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels. For thirty years his work regularly made headlines but his book goes beyond the headlines and shows what an agent has to endure in order to make sure U.S. law is enforced.