No One Is Illegal ─ Fighting Violence and State Repression on the U.S.-Mexico Border

In No One Is Illegal, Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chac￠n expose the racism of anti-Immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who daily risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States. Countering the mounting chorus of anti-immigrant voices, No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants, revealing their deep roots in U.S. history, and documents the new civil rights movement that has mounted protests around the country to demand justice and dignity for immigrants. No One is Illegal also features moving, evocative photos from award-winning photographer Juli?n Cardona.

Mike Davis is a historian and author of many books, including City of Quartz and Planet of Slums. Davis teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine. Justin Akers Chacon is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints. Julian Cardona was born in 1960 in Zacatecas, Mexico, and migrated to the border city of Juarez with his family as a small child. He worked as a technician in the maquiladora industry before becoming a photojournalist in 1993. In 2004, Cardona received a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.