| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the "Illegal Alien" and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary. By Joseph Nevins. (New York: Routledge, 2002. xii, 286 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-93104-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-415-93105-3.)

Operation Gatekeeper examines the development of the U.S. border with Mexico from a zone of transnational interaction and gradual transition to its current status as a semi-militarized boundary of demarcation that, in terms of immigration, has made the "illegal alien" synonymous with crime, disease, and a host of social and economic problems, including the presumed hyperfertility of Mexican women. Joseph Nevins makes the valuable point that governmental policies designed to tighten the border against illegal entry, such as Operation Gatekeeper in 1994, cannot be successful if federal and local governments do not at the same time take serious steps to penalize the army of employers who hire undocumented workers.

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