Cultural Writing. Political Science. Told through the life story of a young man who perished in the California desert, DYING TO LIVE is a compelling account of US immigration/border enforcement and the rapidly growing death toll among migrants. Stunning photos by Mizue Aizeki complement the text. Joseph Nevins authored Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the Illegal Alien and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2002), and A Not-So-Distant Horror (Cornell, 2005). His writings have appeared in the Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and the International Herald Tribune. Noam Chomsky called his previous title, A Not-So-Distant Horror "[a] remarkable book."