Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices that have grown increasingly loud in the current political moment, No One is Illegal exposes the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and puts a human face on the immigrants who risk their lives to cross the border to work in the United States.
This second edition has a new introduction to frame the analysis of the struggle for immigrant rights and the roots of the backlash.
Justin Akers Chacón is the author of the forthcoming Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class.
Mike Davis is the author many books, including The Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums.
Justin Akers Chacón is an activist, labor unionist, and educator living in the San Diego-Tijuana border region. He is a Professor of Chicana/o History at San Diego City College. His other books include No One is Illegal (with Mike Davis) and Radicals in the Barrio.
Publication date: May 15, 2018
Authors John Washington and Justin Akers Chacón discuss how to stand in solidarity with immigrant communities in a time of crisis.
Renowned activist-scholar Mike Davis assesses the coronavirus crisis and discusses the urgent need for international solidarity to end this (and future) pandemics. Watch the video.
