TY - JOUR
AU - Jaquette Ray, Sarah
AB - SARAH JAQUETTE RAY Endangering the Desert: Immigration, the Environment, and Security in the Arizona–Mexico Borderland With more immigrants seeking entry into the United States than since the first decade of the twentieth century, it is no surprise that undocumented immigration has increasingly dominated public debate. Recently concerns about the ecological impact of immigra- tion on borderland environments have become part of these debates. In 2004, for instance, the National Parks Conservation Association ranked Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, one of Arizona’s treasured borderland natural areas, in “America’s top ten endangered parks,” due to the “more than 200,000 undocumented border cross- ings each year [that] cause serious damage to the park’s plants, animals, and historic artifacts” (Himot 32). Eighty-five percent of Arizona’s border with Mexico is protected as parks, refuges, monuments, and natural areas. Nestled among a military range and Tohono O’odham tribal land, these preserved areas operate within a patchwork of vying stakes—tribal, military, security, environmental, private, corporate, and cultural—that entan- gle the Arizona borderland in what Sharon Stevens has called a socioecological web, “where every strand reverberates in response to the movement of any other strand, as with passing breezes or insects on spider webs” (2). The Arizona–Mexico 
TI - Endangering the Desert: Immigration, the Environment, and Security in the ArizonaMexico Borderland
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/isq044
DA - 2010-07-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/endangering-the-desert-immigration-the-environment-and-security-in-the-EqfkfADv9f
SP - 709
EP - 734
VL - 17
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -