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Book 2008
Dying to live
3 readers
- Publisher
- Open Media/City Lights Books
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Death
- Social aspects
- Immigrants
- Human smuggling
- Illegal aliens
- Social conditions
- Emigration and immigration
- Crimes against
Tells the story of Julio Gallegos, one of countless immigrants, attempted to reunite with his family in Los Angeles and died of dehydration while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in California's Imperial Valley. Presents the geographic, historical, and political context of the U.S.-Mexico border that have driven and prevented Mexican migration to the United States.