Open Borders, Open Wounds What America Needs to Know About Illegal Immigration

At the opening of this book, Congressman Tom Tancredo is standing on a hilltop not far from the Arizona-Mexico border watching a long line of illegal aliens following the "coyote" they have paid to bring them into the United States. An average of 1,500 illegals are apprehended here every day as they try to make the crossing. Three will succeed for every one that is stopped. The scene is a vantage point for a story of the hidden costs and growing dangers of our open borders. As Tancredo shows, several hundred illegals from the Middle East pass into the United States through Mexico every year, bringing with them the threat of terrorism. We don't know who they are or where they are heading. But there are human as well as security costs. Some are paid by the Mexican illegals themselves, whose government cynically exports its human problems so as to avoid necessary economic reforms at home. Others are borne by the understaffed Border Patrol, which, in addition to facing an unstoppable human tide, is endangered by armed escorts who accompany the drug and people smugglers. But the American citizens living near the border are most affected. Open Borders, Open Wounds takes us into the world of the ranchers and farmers who have to cope daily with the impact of illegal immigration on their land, their livestock, their water and crops, and the lives and dreams of their families. Tom Tancredo has come back from the U.S.-Mexico border communities he calls a "war zone" with a disturbing picture of "our most pressing issue of national security and social disruption".Tancredo, Tom is the author of 'Open Borders, Open Wounds What America Needs to Know About Illegal Immigration', published 2006 under ISBN 9781594031182 and ISBN 1594031185.