Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 The Menaces Without: Immigrant Ali ens and the Origins of Immigration Restrictions 13
6. Chapter 2 Diverted Streams: Discovering a Permeable B order, 1882–1891 37
7. Chapter 3 Drawing the Lines: Blueprints for Immigration Enforcement on the Borders, 1891–1910 67
8. Chapter 4 Erasing the Lines: Immigrant Ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1895–1910 93
9. Chapter 5 Northward Bound: Mexican Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees at the Border, 1900–1921 123
10. Chapter 6 The Sisyphean Task: Origins of the Modern Border 145
11. Epilogue: An Imaginary Line: Change and Continuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border 167
12. Notes 179
13. Bibliography 225
14. Index 239