To Sin Against Hope

Alfredo Gutierrez''s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown-the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and a thought-provoking history, the war on Mexican immigrants has rarely abated. Barack Obama now presides ...