04807cam a2200553 i 4500 25568 25568 6525088 MeVbMML 20190502001225.0 180125t20182018nyuabf b 001 0 eng 2017052341 9780316476614 hardcover 0316476617 hardcover 9780316476614 28.00 0316476617 28.00 (OCoLC)on1021064856 (OCoLC)1021064856 6515558 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF WIM JTH YDX BUR IGA pcc n-mx--- n-us--- HV5825 .B84 2018 363.28/409721 23 HV5825 .B84 2018 Buffett, Howard G., author. 5754 Our 50-state border crisis : how the Mexican border fuels the drug epidemic across America / Howard G. Buffett. First edition. New York : Hachette Books, 2018. ©2018 xxviii, 356 pages, [16] pages of color plates : map ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Foreword by Senator Heidi Haitkamp -- Part I: Costs and consequences. Red Shoes "walk up" ; Lights off, pistols ready ; Stepping on the balloon ; An expensive juggling act ; Sanctuaries and "slam dunks" ; Drug cartels and Decaturs ; What about demand? ; Too much, too fast ; Barriers -- Part II: Countries of origin. Red Shoes Honduras ; Stolen harvests ; Two-legged predators ; Prison or the cemetery ; Silencing the canary ; Red Shoes on the road again -- Part III: What needs to change. Reboot command of the border ; Respect and work with Mexico ; Create a persistent presence ; Reduce demand for drugs and illegal labor ; Support peace and security in our hemisphere -- Epilogue: Orange Shoes in Arizona. "From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern border in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts and migrants into drug mules--and killing us in record numbers. People often talk about America's insecure borders and our raging opioid crisis as if they are separate issues. To Buffett, a landowner on the U.S. border with Mexico and, after five years as a sworn law enforcement officer, now the sheriff of Macon County, Illinois, the two are intimately connected. Ineffective border policies not only put residents in border states like Texas and Arizona in harm's way, they put American lives in states such as Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont at risk. Mexican cartels have grown astonishingly powerful by exploiting both the gaps in our border security strategy and the desperation of migrants--all while profiting enormously off America's growing addiction to drugs. The solution isn't a wall. In this groundbreaking and vivid book, Buffett takes readers to the rugged terrain of the Arizona and Texas border country, where the drama and heartbreak of drug smuggling and migrant crossings play out every day. He also takes us to Mexico and El Salvador, showing how devastating poverty and cartel violence spur migration. Supplemented by sixteen pages of Buffett's own photography, [this book] outlines a realistic, effective, and bipartisan approach to fighting cartels, strengthening our national security, and tackling the roots of the chaos south of the border."--Dust jacket. Drug control Mexican-American Border Region. 5755 Drug traffic Mexico. 5756 Human smuggling Mexican-American Border Region. 5757 Border security United States. 5758 Mexico Emigration and immigration Government policy. 5759 United States Emigration and immigration Government policy. 5760 New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf ddc BOOK NO HOLDINGS IN BRL - 120 OTHER HOLDINGS ddc 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2018-05-11 28.00 0 363.28 BUFF 37649 2018-05-11 2018-05-11 BOOK