Join us on November 3rd from 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. in SED C168 or via Zoom for a conversation with co-authors Reece Jones and Greg Boos about their highly-anticipated new book, Smuggler. Smuggler is the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of how a quaint bed and breakfast on the Canadian border became the epicenter of debates about refugee protections and violent immigration policing inside the United States

Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America’s Northern Border is the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story of how a quaint bed and breakfast on the Canadian border became the epicenter of debates about refugee protections and violent immigration policing inside the United States. Bob Boulé was a conservative businessman when he opened the Smuggler’s Inn, but, over time, his perspective changed and he found his life’s purpose in helping over 1000 refugees sneak across the border into Canada. His help for refugees cost him everything. He was assaulted by a Border Patrol agent while protecting a refugee that led to a case before the US Supreme Court (Egbert v. Boule), he was arrested twice, and he lost his business and his reputation. Despite that, he has no regrets and would do it all over again.

Bios:

Reece Jones is the author of the award-winning books Nobody Is Protected, White Borders, Violent Borders, and Border Walls. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a lifetime Fellow of the American Association of Geographers. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and CNN. He is a professor of geography and environment at the University of Hawaiʻi.

Greg Boos is the founder of Cascadia Cross–Border Law and a dual US–Canadian citizen. He has forty years of experience in immigration law, and he represented Bob Boulé since 2015. Greg served as an external advisor to the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University for almost two decades and is recognized internationally for research on the Jay Treaty and the IIRIRA of 1996.