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The Coyote's bicycle

the untold story of seven thousand bicycles and the rise of a borderland empire
This is the story of seven thousand bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US-Mexico border, this book is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

Illegal immigration

2014
Description based on print version record. Introduces issues related to illegal immigration and examines the pros and cons of the debate.

Tattoo of Death

Choose Your Own Adventure #22
2006
The reader must make the right decisions in order to get out of the Red Flowers gang and their evil business of importing illegal aliens into a life of violence and modern-day slavery.

La traves?a de Enrique

2006
Addresses the issues of family and illegal immigration through the story of a young boy's dangerous journey from Honduras to the U.S. in search of his mother, who left him and his sibling behind to make a better life for her family.

Desert Angel

2014
In the California desert, fourteen-year-old Angel is on the run from the man who abused her, killed her mother, and intends to kill her too.

Return to sender

2010
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.

What should be done about illegal immigration?

Examines the issues surrounding illegal immigration into the United States, including efforts to prevent it and how to handle deportations of illegal immigrants.

Ambassador

2014
Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.

Something in between

2016
After learning of her family's illegal immigrant status, Jasmine realizes that college may be impossible and that deportation is a real threat, uncertainties she endures as she falls for the son of a congressman who opposes an immigration reform bill.

Spare parts

four undocumented teenagers, one ugly robot, and the battle for the American dream
Presents an account of four Mexican-American teenagers' efforts to build an underwater robot for a NASA-sponsored robotics project, and their unexpected win despite the fact that they lived in poverty and in fear of having their illegal immigration status discovered. Also chronicles the anti-immigration sentiments and racism they experienced after winning, and their efforts to establish lives for themselves in America.

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