On the Iron River
Rachel Nolan: Guns across the Border, 21 November 2024
Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border
by Ieva Jusionyte.
California, 333 pp., £24, April,978 0 520 39595 4 Show More
by Ieva Jusionyte.
California, 333 pp., £24, April,
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by Jason deLeón.
Viking, 367 pp., £28.99, March,978 0 593 29858 9 Show More
by Jason deLeón.
Viking, 367 pp., £28.99, March,
“... who didn’t want to die of exposure had to hire what were called guides, polleros or coyotes.As Jason deLeón wrote in The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (2015), ‘prevention through deterrence’ enlisted the harsh natural landscape and its predatory animal population to kill ... ”