The Mexican Operation (The Mafia Mexican Immigrants and Racism in a 1950's Desert Town) by Lee A. Silva (2006-08-01)
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A graphic story of the international exploitation of the Bracero Program. The roots of the out-of-control twenty-first-century illegal Mexican immigration problem. How it all started based on the real-life experiences of the author and murder of his father. The lives of six men--a ruthless Mafia hit man a determined Portuguese taxi company owner a street-smart young man raised in orphanages and foster homes a giant Negro field worker a humble Mexican campesino and a rich cowboy movie star are thrown together by fate in a desolate desert town. The Mexican Operation is a western set in the 1950 s complete with wild horses and good-guys and bad-guys and their women with a brutal shocking tale to tell this is a story of simple life on a desert river of the corruption that created the money that helped build early Las Vegas of interracial culture and prejudice of the shameless abuses of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants and of social tension in a town and in a era that time
