Joseph Nevins, professor of geography at Vassar College. As a scholar, he has focused on territorial borders and the social constructs that arise from them, focusing on the border between Mexico and the United States. His book, Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War on “Illegals” and the Remaking of the US-Mexico Boundary, clearly outlines the complex social structure surrounding the border and how that social structure is influenced by a number of other variables such as politics, the economy. and crime, to name a few. He offers a unique perspective on an issue typically reserved for political scientists or historians, and this allows his argument to be refreshing and insightful. David Gutierrez is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. At UCSD, Professor Gutierrez specializes in Chicano history and immigration history, as well as politics in the United States during the 20th century. His book, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity, is similar to the book in that it is certainly refreshing, but it is written from a historian's perspective, so it offers more historical background of the border with less attention to social constructs and more attention to the history of boundary changes that have occurred over time through the lens of social and political events. Each novel covers pretty much the same topic but with different points of view in the same way that two people may witness a car accident from different points of view, but end up with the same breakdown of events that led to the accident . Comparing the two books can offer a deeper understanding of the border as a whole and certainly a better all-round view... the center of the paper... broadly speaking. (Nevins 202) He states earlier that border accumulation and immigration are simply trends that occur from the local to the state and national levels and that the “illegalization” of the immigration process is simply a means by which the The US government can portray people who have good intentions as outlaws. (Nevins 193) Thus carrying over an important concept from The Third Boarder: the negative images of the US-Mexico border are transmitted from the first, to the second, to the third border. Nevins then argues that the reason the tactic works is that American society has a history of “race-based anti-immigrant sentiment.” (Nevins 194). It is not difficult to conclude that his position on the term illegal alien would be remarkably similar to that of Gutierrez, even though they view this event from two different points of view.