My New Kentucky Home. Peter Laufer.
by Laufer, Peter; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 7Environment. Publisher: Washington Monthly, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Alien labor | Cities and towns -- Economic conditions | Cultural differences | Emigration and immigration | Emigration and immigration -- Mexico | Emigration and immigration law | Illegal aliens | Kentucky | Mexicans -- United States | VisasDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Route 77 is a small road, an east Texas highway that runs north from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, past the spring break resorts of the Padre Islands. There it connects to Route 37, which takes you to San Antonio. If you turn on Route 35, you'll pass Dallas en route to Oklahoma, following a sagebrush express highway built to cut across nearly empty counties and link the far-flung commercial centers of the Southwest and heartland to one another. From Oklahoma City, you get a choice of destinations, each of them places where Middle America dwindles out into the countryside: west to the panhandle, north to Kansas, east to Arkansas or Missouri, and, eventually, Kentucky. Drive long enough on this route, and you begin to remember the value big interstate roads like these had in allowing farmers to bring their products to market more easily. Step off the road now and then, though, and you begin to notice something else: This set of ur-red state roads has become a main artery for immigration." (WASHINGTON MONTHLY) This article illustrates the economic, cultural, and political pressures in Kentucky caused by an influx of illegal immigration.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: My New Kentucky Home, Jan./Feb. 2005; pp. 22-27.
"Route 77 is a small road, an east Texas highway that runs north from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, past the spring break resorts of the Padre Islands. There it connects to Route 37, which takes you to San Antonio. If you turn on Route 35, you'll pass Dallas en route to Oklahoma, following a sagebrush express highway built to cut across nearly empty counties and link the far-flung commercial centers of the Southwest and heartland to one another. From Oklahoma City, you get a choice of destinations, each of them places where Middle America dwindles out into the countryside: west to the panhandle, north to Kansas, east to Arkansas or Missouri, and, eventually, Kentucky. Drive long enough on this route, and you begin to remember the value big interstate roads like these had in allowing farmers to bring their products to market more easily. Step off the road now and then, though, and you begin to notice something else: This set of ur-red state roads has become a main artery for immigration." (WASHINGTON MONTHLY) This article illustrates the economic, cultural, and political pressures in Kentucky caused by an influx of illegal immigration.
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