Crossing Borders with the Santo Niño de Atocha (review)
as E-Verify, the REAL ID Act of 2005, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, and cross-deputization of law enforcement under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act—to make life much more difficult for southern Latinos. This shift provides a good context for understanding why so many Latinos are now describing life in the region in more ambivalent and contradictory terms than they used to, since they have come under increasing attack from natives (especially politicians and workingclass whites and blacks, as the various chapters illustrate) for their allegedly harmful cultural and criminal attributes.