“We didn’t cross the border; the border crossed us.” Anonymous (Chicano Movement) Brian D. Behnken is Professor of History at Iowa State University, specializing in the history of Mexican Americans and African Americans; he holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis, and has published extensively.  His book is the culmination of years of research analyzing important legal cases to examine the connections linking policing in the Southwestern United States to racism against people of Mexican descent.  This work builds upon his 2022 book, Borders, Violence, and Justice, 1835–1935, which examined how policing and criminal legislation in the first Read more