This book is filled with insights such as how a "guestworker" program would empower agribusiness employers and restrict previously undocumented fieldworkers who, without the constraints of guestworker provisions, would migrate to other areas of work such as construction if they were being unacceptably exploited in the fields.

Includes stories of the slaves picking our apples, and the paper we buy from trees planted by workers who don't get paid.

'David Bacon is a nonfiction Steinbeck, the foremost documentarist of the great human drama of the borderlands.' - Mike Davis

The war on immigrants is big-business. 'Targeted' exposes the economic motivations behind all the rhetoric about 'security.' The book includes a forward by radical historian Howard Zinn. Radio host Amy Goodman says, 'This well-researched book documents the perfect storm of white nationalist policy, corporate greed, and the privatized war on terror.'

'Suburban Sweatshops is a case study in what happens when courage and solidarity come up against greed and indifference.' - Barbara Ehrenreich

Excellent documentary of an illegal immigrant who enriches US culture through his music. It follows him as he goes back to Mexico to visit his family and his dying mom. It also gives an up-close look at the limited options and varied struggles economic refugees face.

Some of the immigrants I know are Mayans from Guatemala. This documentary tells the story of the US-sponsored holocaust they suffered through.

Incredible footage and commentary of the global resistance to predatory corporatism.

'Anyone who has witnessed the daily tragedy at the US-Mexican border knows it is time to develop a more practical, more humane immigration policy. Peter Laufer understands this issue better than most and offers some outrageously simple - and quite possibly workable - solutions to a very old problem.' - Sanford Ungar

'Nevins meticulously deconstructs this political, and above all, human phenomenon in a thorough and penetrating text. This book could not be more timely; literally, there are lives on the line.' - Ruben Martinez

Speaking of Chomsky, this is an excellent collection of interviews with him on Latin America.

Imprisoning immigrants is a growing business. And US citizens shouldn't be so naive as to think that all these detention centers can't someday be used to house US citizens of all sorts.

US citizens have a lot to learn from the spirit of resistance in Mexico and beyond.

Lovely music from a variety of artists.

Immigrants, legal and illegal, have made this country so much more interesting, and beautiful.