The Tea Party and its allies celebrate the rogue states of the Southwest                  as a model for the nation in their go-it-alone posturing and tough                  immigration-enforcement talk. In Border Wars, dogged investigative journalist Tom                  Barry documents the costs of that model: lives lost; families torn apart; billions                  of wasted tax dollars; vigilantes prowling the desert; and fiscal crises in cities,                  counties, and states. Even worse, he warns, the entire nation risks following their                  lead. As Barry explains, the lack of coherent federal policy on immigration and drug                  war conduct and the uncritical embrace of all things in the name of national                  security has opened doors for opportunists from boardrooms to governor's offices in                  Texas and Arizona. Corporate-prison magnates eagerly swallow up undocumented                  immigrants into taxpayer-funded dungeons, border sheriffs and politicians trade on                  voters' fears of Latinos and "big government," and pro-business policy                  institutes and lobbyists battle the public interest. Border Wars offers a stark                  portrait of the domestic cost of failed federal leadership in the post-9/11                  era.

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