Showdown In The Sonoran Desert Summary
Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy Book Review
Author Amanda Rose has taken it upon herself to bring to light the horrific experiences of modern day immigrant’s flight to freedom through the Sonoran Desert. In addition to addressing the immigrant’s plight, she calls into question the immigration process or lack thereof, the United States legislative broken immigration policy, religious leaders and their roles, US Border Patrol and US citizens. Her intent is to open up a dialogue on US immigration policies and educate the American public on the devastating consequences of a hapless built dividing wall between two countries which are felt not only by the immigrants but by the people that live in and around the border. Rose illustrates the conflicts that everyday Americans citizens living on the border face in trying to help and solve border issues with their personal solutions. Do they work? Are they …show more content…
With the full effort of the border patrol and US government cracking down at the various locations on the border forcing migrants into more desolate and dangerous territory raises the probability of death. Your poignant lectures on the economic ties between US Wall Street capitalists backed by the US military/law enforcement taking advantage of a weak Mexican government. The priests and religious leaders finding themselves in constant opposition with the immigration policy. Clashes between the different organizations that have opposing views and strategies on solutions are forever entrenched in the daily lives of the people of the Sonoran desert. How do we get to the place of dialogue? Can we take fear out of the equation to come up with a resolution? Rose’s final statement sums it all up quite nicely, “And there is you, reading this, asking yourself, what we do?” (pg
Author Amanda Rose has taken it upon herself to bring to light the horrific experiences of modern day immigrant’s flight to freedom through the Sonoran Desert. In addition to addressing the immigrant’s plight, she calls into question the immigration process or lack thereof, the United States legislative broken immigration policy, religious leaders and their roles, US Border Patrol and US citizens. Her intent is to open up a dialogue on US immigration policies and educate the American public on the devastating consequences of a hapless built dividing wall between two countries which are felt not only by the immigrants but by the people that live in and around the border. Rose illustrates the conflicts that everyday Americans citizens living on the border face in trying to help and solve border issues with their personal solutions. Do they work? Are they …show more content…
With the full effort of the border patrol and US government cracking down at the various locations on the border forcing migrants into more desolate and dangerous territory raises the probability of death. Your poignant lectures on the economic ties between US Wall Street capitalists backed by the US military/law enforcement taking advantage of a weak Mexican government. The priests and religious leaders finding themselves in constant opposition with the immigration policy. Clashes between the different organizations that have opposing views and strategies on solutions are forever entrenched in the daily lives of the people of the Sonoran desert. How do we get to the place of dialogue? Can we take fear out of the equation to come up with a resolution? Rose’s final statement sums it all up quite nicely, “And there is you, reading this, asking yourself, what we do?” (pg