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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Line Becomes a River, written and read by Francisco Cantú. How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid nights across a vast terrain. He detains the exhausted and the parched.

Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary, middle, and high school, and then the country they call home won’t—in most states—offer financial aid for college and they’re unable to be legally employed. In 2001, US senator Dick Durbin introduced the DREAM Act to Congress, an initiative that would allow these young people to become legal residents if they met certain requirements.

On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported to the rough border town of Nogales, Sonora, with nothing but the clothes on her back. Her two-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son, both American citizens, were taken by the state of Arizona and consigned to foster care. Their mother's only offense: living undocumented in the United States.

Americans are shocked by ongoing reports chronicling growing chaos in Europe, where massive Muslim migration is w reaking h avoc on the continent in cluding horrendous acts of mass terror ism, an epidemic of rape and sexual assault against European women, and large, jihadist-rich enclaves where even police are allegedly he sitant to enter. Yet, few realize tha t America is heading down the same suicidal path.

Written and composed by immigrants and first generation Americans, Home provides a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for everyone. The United States is composed of and built by immigrants, and it has been a beacon to those in search of a new life for hundreds of years. Home is a collection of 34 poems and 12 songs inspired by a diverse group of immigrants who have made significant contributions to the United States.

In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends.

Marianne Leone's Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations. Born on a farm in Italy, Linda finds her way to the United States under dark circumstances, having escaped a forced marriage to a much older man, and marries a good Italian boy. She never has full command of English, especially when questioned by authorities, and when she is suddenly widowed with three young children, she has few options.

David Marr has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners, presenter of ABC TV's Media Watch and now writes for the Guardian. His books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson) and five Quarterly Essays: 'His Master's Voice', 'Power Trip', 'Political Animal', 'The Prince' and 'Faction Man'.

Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand.

The first new edition in 10 years of this important study of Latinos in US history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries - from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture - from food to entertainment to literature - is greater than ever.

In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States, all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together.

Quel patto Italia-Libia che imbarazza il governo: Memorandum per Zingaretti 29 ottobre, di Gad Lerner; Bija, il trafficante a capo dei soccorsi: l'ultima provocazione libica, di Giuliano Foschini e Fabio Tonacci; Minniti: "Non mi pento del patto con la Libia. Ma bisogna cambiarlo", di Gad Lerner; La mossa del governo in Europa per aprire centri Ue a Tripoli, di Goffredo De Marchis; Lamorgese: "L'invasione di migranti non c'è. E i rimpatri aumentano", di Piero Colaprico.

Sea-Watch, Storia di Carola 2: La mail al pm, la paura di sbagliare manovra, il rischio suicidi: così è nato il blitz di Carola, di Fabio Tonacci; Quelle donne disobbedienti, di Michele Ainis; Le prigioni di Carola, di Fabio Tonacci; Carola, la vittoria del cuore, di Gad Lerner; Caso Sea Watch. "Non c'è reato. Per Carola salvare i migranti era suo dovere", di Fabio Tonacci.

Respingere o salvare? Il tema dei migranti in sei aricoli di Repubblica : A bordo della nave che sfida il blocco: "Saremo noi italiani ad aiutare chi fugge", di Marco Mensurati; Migranti, la Germania sceglie la linea dura per rimandarli in Italia, di Tonia Mastrobuoni; Marta, Mario e gli altri: "Noi, diventati marinai per salvare i migranti dall’inferno libico", di Marco Mensurati; Migranti, sulla redistribuzione Roma sempre più isolata, di Alessandra Ziniti; Migranti, lite Italia-Germania e Berlino non ferma i charter, di Tonia Mastrobuoni.

Ein spannender Blick darauf, wie wichtig Migration tatsächlich sein kann!Überall war es in den letzten Jahren in den Nachrichten, die Menschen fliehen aus ihren Ländern und suchen eine neue Zuflucht. Diese Tatsache hat in nicht wenigen Ländern Diskussionen ausgelöst, wie man am besten mit dem Thema Immigration umgehen sollte, was zum Teil auch zu blutigen Auseinandersetzungen geführt hat. Denn es ist nicht zu leugnen, dass Migration die Zusammensetzung von Gesellschaften verändert.

C'è una linea immaginaria eppure realissima, una ferita non chiusa, un luogo di tutti e di nessuno di cui ognuno, invisibilmente, è parte: è la frontiera che separa e insieme unisce il Nord del mondo, democratico, liberale e civilizzato, e il Sud, povero, morso dalla guerra, arretrato e antidemocratico. È sul margine di questa frontiera che si gioca il grande gioco del mondo contemporaneo.

Chi sono gli stranieri presenti oggi in Italia? Da dove arrivano e per quali ragioni? Come viene regolata la loro presenza? L'immigrazione è un fenomeno complesso, radicato nelle condizioni sociali del paese e nelle trasformazioni degli ultimi decenni. Un fenomeno parte di un processo più ampio che ha investito in tempi diversi tutti i paesi dell'Europa occidentale e che ha reso gli immigrati una presenza stabile.

Südliches Mittelmeer, Juni 2018. 235 Menschen drohen auf offener See zu ertrinken - ihr viel zu kleines Schlauchboot ist leck geschlagen und verliert seit Stunden an Luft. Claus-Peter Reisch, Kapitän des Schiffes Lifeline, handelt sofort und rettet mit seiner Crew den verzweifelten Flüchtlingen das Leben. Doch seinem Schiff wird überall die Landung verwehrt. Kein europäischer Staat will die Schutzsuchenden aufnehmen. Erst nach fünf langen Tagen, in denen Europa einmal mehr über die Verantwortlichkeiten streitet, darf Reisch endlich in Malta anlegen.

Enfant de l'immigration, Lydia Guirous, n'a pas eu de difficulté à s'intégrer. La France, elle l'aime. Trop peut-être ? Au point de déranger ceux qui voudraient qu'elle la rejette ? À mi-chemin entre le manifeste et le témoignage, l'auteur pointe la dangereuse dérive d'une France qui a honte de ses valeurs, de son histoire et abdique face à la montée du communautarisme et de l'islam radical.

The 21st century has been an era of hardening borders-increased borderland patrols, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who can vacation (or do business) where they please, and others whose movements are restricted by armed guards. But as journalist Todd Miller finds in Empire of Borders, the US border is also becoming increasingly fluid, expanding thousands of miles outside of US territory often to protect Washington's interests.