The Coyote's Bicycle (51 page)

page 377:
illustrate, for me, certain central equations
. . .
Border Games: Policing the U.S.–Mexico Divide
, 2nd Edition, Peter Andreas, 2009. Andreas is one of our foremost border experts, and
Border Games
helped me understand what I was discovering on the ground.

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Smuggler's Gulch with
1
.
7
million yards of dirt
. . . “U.S. Smooths Away an Illegal Border Crossing Wrinkle,” Richard Marosi,
Los Angeles Times,
January 4, 2009

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plan to replace the entire string
. . . “Border Agents Relying On Outdated Surveillance Equipment,” Brian Bennett,
Los Angeles Times
, October 19, 2012; “Homeland Security Delays Plan to Place Sensors on U.S.–Mexico Border,” Robert Beckhusen,
Wired
, February 11, 2013

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Social scientists, internal affairs investigators, and attorneys general
. . . “Corruption in Law Enforcement: A Paradigm of Occupational Stress and Deviancy,” Francis L. McCafferty, MD, Margaret A. McCafferty, RN,
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1998

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when
CBP
fired James Tomsheck
. . . “Former Border Protection Insider Alleges Corruption, Distortion in Agency,” Carrie Johnson,
Morning Edition
,
NPR
News, August 28, 2014

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The number of Border Patrol agents was doubled under the Bush Administration
. . . “Border Patrol has lots of agents . . . in wrong places,”
Associated Press
, June 29, 2014

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The heavily debated border-reform bill
. . . H.R.399 Secure Our Borders First Act, https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/399

PHOTO © JP VAN SWAE

KIMBALL TAYLOR
is a long-time contributor to
Surfer Magazine
and the author of two books about the sport:
Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures
and
Drive Fast and Take Chances
. Taylor holds a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing and is an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Copyright © 2016 Kimball Taylor

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Names: Taylor, Kimball.

Title: The coyote's bicycle : [the untold story of 7,000 bicycles and the rise of a borderland empire] / by Kimball Taylor.

Description: 1st U.S. edition. | Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2016. Identifiers: LCCN 2015033873 | ISBN 9781941040201 (alk. paper) | ISBN 9781941040218 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Human smuggling—Mexican-American Border Region. | Illegalaliens—Mexican-American Border Region. | Bicycles—Mexican-American Border Region. | United States—Emigration and immigration—Government policy. | Mexico—Emigration and immigration—Government policy.

Classification: LCC JV6475 .T39 2016 | DDC 364.1/3709721—dc23

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