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One book that you might like is The Border Across Us, the case for opening the U.S.-Mexico

border by Justin Ockers-Chucone.

Temporary North American capitalism relies heavily on an interconnected working class which

extends across the border.

Cross-border production and supply chains, logistics networks, and retail and service firms

have aligned and fused a growing number of workers into one common class, whether they live

in Mexico or the U.S.

But while money moves without restriction, the movement of displaced migrant workers across

borders is restricted and punished.

This border people face walls, armed agents, detention camps, and a growing regime of

repressive laws that criminalize them.

Despite the growth and violence of the police state dedicated to the repression of transporter

populations, however, migrant workers have been at the forefront of class struggle in the

United States.

This timely book persuasively argues that labor and migrant solidarity movements are already

showing how and why in order to fight for justice and rebuild the international union movement,

we must open the border.

As Harsho Aliya puts it, The Border Across Us is a meticulously researched manifesto on

the U.S.-Mexico border.

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