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Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Wetback Nation helps to understand the background to the Bush proposals, the story of how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican adn other migrants, the bloating of the mismanaged Immigration and Naturalization Service, the deterioration of living standards along the frontier and the erichment of American employers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Desperately Seeking Asylum prioritizes the testimonies of refugee families and unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the U.S. from Central America, primarily Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Their desperate and heart-wrenching stories disclose why they fled their homelands, their experiences along the treacherous overland journey, and the harsh reality of how the U.S. treats these families and children upon arrival to the U.S. It...
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Discusses the recurring crisis in the United States over the issue of immigration, suggesting that the problem should be addressed by insights taken from moral and religious philosophy, history and international relations, and the science of ecology, rather than from an economic, political, or sentimental standpoint.The author examines the intertwined economic and moral issues presented by the immigration debate and sees the massive numbers of modern...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013], p2013
Description
From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today.
The immigration debate has challenged our nation since its founding. But today, it divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Here at last is an attainable resolution guided by two core principles: first,...
Author
Description
"Coulter touches on the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrant's crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity", greedy Republican businessmen, and campaign consultants--all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the...
32) Immigration
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Concentrates on the voluntary immigration to the United States from the 17th to the late 20th century as background to the immigration controversies of the 1990s.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
An award-winning author examines the history of American immigration--a critical topic in 21st century America--particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who were denied entrance into the States or detained for security reasons.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century." --
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the battle for immigration reform is personal. Mulligan Sepúlveda writes of visiting border detention centers, defending undocumented immigrants in court, and taking his services to JFK to represent people being turned away at the gates during Trump's infamous travel ban"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2020.
Description
"At a time when anti-immigrant vitriol substitutes for US immigration policy, No Option But North deftly blends heartbreaking accounts of the journey north with cogent insights into the systemic causes that make the trek north an almost impossible option if you're poor and from south of the border. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the human rights implications of US immigration politics."'Antonio Villaraigosa, 41st Mayor of Los Angeles...
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