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From a deadly border to America's kidnapping capital—the secret lives at the heart of the immigration controversy Arizona’s violent border is the busiest gateway for illegal immigration in America, making Arizona Ground Zero for the immigration debate. No state is as hostile to the undocumented, and no city is as unwelcoming as Phoenix. Yet Phoenix is home to thousands who live in the shadows, where civil rights are neglected and lives are lost. Illegal sheds light on the invisible immigrants who persevere despite kidnappings and drug wars, an ongoing recession, and laws barring them from working, learning, and driving. By profiling these undocumented people, and those—like notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio—who persecute them, author Terry Greene Sterling courageously reveals the changing face of immigration in America and gives new insight into a divisive national crisis.
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Terry Greene Sterling is Writer-in-Residence at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, and has won forty-nine national and regional journalism awards. A Spanish speaker, she was a staff writer for Phoenix New Times for fourteen years. She is a contributor to The Daily Beast; her work has also appeared in the Washington Post and Newsweek, as well as on salon.com. Follow her on Twitter @tgsterling or at terrygreenesterling.com.