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This is a casebook that covers all the major aspects of immigration and refugee law and policy. ... Read more

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Shoot me now.
This has to be one of the worst casebooks I have ever read. The biggest complaint I have is that, for some reason, the author feels compelled to reveal the entire legislative history for every statute or immigration guideline. So if you are studying INA 237(x)(x)(x) you will not only get the very recent changes that led up to the statute, but the last 30 years of history. For true scholars of the law who have nothing better to do with their lives than read irrelevant legislative history I am sure this will please them. For actual law students who think succinctness is a virtue, stay away. Another minor problem is that the author has failed to label his notes. Labeling notes is a very common practice and is very helpful in summarizing what the note is about without having to first read it. Of course, I find the very subject of immigration law to be about as boring a class in law school as I have ever taken so maybe this casebook is just making the best out of a bad situation.

Excellent resource for the law course or the attorney
This casebook is well-ordered, and an outstanding guide for the classroom or for the advocate. A comprehensive account of immigration law and policy since the 1800s, including very well-excerpted material from all major cases; and now a new detailed overview of the events and changes from 2001 through the present. A comprehensive section on citizenship is also included. Provides large portions of thought-provoking policy essays that aren't found in one place elsewhere.

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The 2007 Supplement covers the vital developments in immigration and refugee law and policy since the publication of the Fourth Edition's new cases, legislative action, regulations, scholarly advances, and political debate. Among the highlights:Developments on "material support" for terrorist organizationsThe Supreme Court?s decision in Lopez v. Gonzales on drug crimes as aggravated feloniesJudicial criticisms of the removal process, immigration judges, and the BIADevelopments on judicial review of removal ordersNew requirements for establishing "social group" asylum claimsRecent developments on asylum claims based on coercive population controls ... Read more

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The book reached me in good time and condition was same as stated in the book listing. ... Read more

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This compact, comprehensive title offers an expert overview of the history, constitutional authority, statutory provisions, regulations, structure, procedure, administrative process, and ethical principles of immigration law and practice. ... Read more

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Solid overview of material
This book proved to be a critical supplement to my poor immigration law course.The book provides a very helpful overview of the entirety of immigration law in the U.S., and really helps clarify the complex categories and definitions that pervade the subject.Depending on how theoretical or policy-oriented your course is, you might actually learn more about the black letter law from this book than from the course, as I did.Overall, given the low price I would recommend purchasing it even if you only think it would be marginally helpful to your studies.

(4th ed.) Good overview/foundation for further research
The most difficult thing about studying any body of laws resides, not in its substance, but in its presentation. One advantage of immigration law is that it relies heavily on fairly stable categories. This book should help anyone but the most impatient to build a first outline of the main categories of immigration law--with helpful annotations.

15 chapters: 1-4 (background information--including history and constitutional law); 5 (immigrant visas), 6 (nonimmigrant visas), 7 (zooms on student visas--a sub-category of nonimmigrant visas), 8 (removal--formerly "deportation"), 9 (inadmissibility), 10 (refugees/asyless), 11 (international law), 12 (citizenship), 13 (zooms on rights of aliens in general), 14 (criminal aspects of immigration law), 15 (ethical practice).

My main advice is to take good note of the general INA and CFR provisions under each category and subcategory, and names (and holdings, why not) of important cases. Add that to your outline, and you have a fine guide for further research. In other words, if your goal is to familiarize yourself with the field AS A WHOLE for the first time, don't get bogged down in the discussions of legal history and cases at first (yes, this is not a manual, so what's the point?)--except for the general history of US immigration law at the start of the book, which gives you a good first sense of the "spirit" of US immigration policy. You could come back to those discussions later, without the aggravation.

I do not recommend delving directly into any body of laws that is as extensive as immigration law, unless of course you have a few years to spare--but then again why waste that time? Think of books like this one as you would of maps: you don't want to have to start looking for California, street by street, starting in Washington DC. The point is this: an overview is always useful. This one should help you, if you use it properly.

Best ready reference on Immigration
This book is not only very easy to carry around but is an awesome tool for students and practitioners. Right to the point and easy reading format, a must to deal with the most complicated area of our laws. It seems that it will be a good tool for a while since there's no change to immigration laws on sight in the near future.

GREAT NUTSHELL
I would HIGHLY encourage anyone taking Immigration law to purchase this nutshell.It succintly covered all the topics of immigration law and trendously helped in understanding this evolving field of law.

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This volume examines the nexus between immigration and crime from all of the angles. It addresses not just the evidence regarding the criminality of immigrants but also the research on the victimization of immigrants; on human trafficking; domestic violence; the police handling of human trafficking; the exportation to crime problems via deportation; the vigilantes at the U.S. border; the role of the non-immigration police in the control of immigration; and, the criminalization of immigration policy. ... Read more

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Important New Insights into Immigration and Crime
Immigration, Crime and Justice takes a fresh look at the relationship between immigration and crime, providing a wealth of information and, in some cases, surprising new viewpoints.The book deftly considers the growing influence of globalization on the increasing diverse origins and destinations of migrants, and the corresponding impacts on the infrastructure and operation of national justice systems. If you're looking for the latest perspectives on how immigration relates to criminality and its effects on evolving social and legislative issues, you can't miss this book. ... Read more

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Researched and written by a top immigration lawyer, here's the complete reference for anyone needing the most recent information to immigrate legally to the United States, including instructions for registering visas, green cards, citizenship and more. ... Read more

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a suckers book
this book was to aid me in getting my wifes immigration papers done. it only covered one form in that area. there are about 8 forms to deal with. I can not recomend this book to anyone, need help get a immigration lawyer. lol, the one form in book i needed, i didn't need help with, so for me this book was a 100 % loss of my money.

US Immigration and Citizenship: Your complete Guide
This book gives detail information that will not only educate but assist a non-legal individual into performing some basic and necessary immigration process that will save hundreds of $$$s. I believe that this book is a must for all those who see immigration services. I give it an A+.

Immigration Law Student
This book is wonderful! It outlines the major aspects of Immigration Law, ideal for someone filing a petition, someone learning about Immigration Law, or who is working in the field and want some advanced knowledge (like myself). Definately easy to read, forms are provided in the appendix. I consider it my bible to Immigration Law.

Immigration & Citizenship
I ordered this book for a GE class. The author was the professor. The subject was interesting and full of information. I would recommend it to anyone interested in becoming an American citizen.

While once a great resource, information is now dated.
This book was great during the 1997 time period when it was first published.However, INS has made so many recent changes and interim rulings that in terms of a "how to" book I find it to be datedand no longer totally reliable for current law. ... Read more

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Immigration has been a controversial area of public policy since the Commonwealth Immigration Act ended most primary immigration in 1962. This study looks at the work of practitioners in the court-system that hears appeals from immigrants against decisions made by the British government. ... Read more

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The Immigration Law audio lecture on CD provides a comprehensive survey of immigration law from a nationally recognized immigration law expert. This lecture explores immigration and the constitution; the grounds for entering the United States; the grounds for exclusion; the process of admission; the grounds for deportation; relief from deportability; the process of deportation; asylum and refugee law; the convention against torture; workplace enforcement of our immigration laws; and the law of citizenship. ... Read more

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Great Study Aid
My immigration law course focused on the INA and constitutional questions surrounding immigration.This product was particularly helpful as a study aid going into finals.I would recommend this product to sharpen the concepts that you have been learning throughout the semester, however it does not go into enough depth to replace reading your text book, nor should it.However if you have a good outline in front of you, listening to these cds is like having a private review session.
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This volume examines the development of refugee law and policy in Japan. The book discusses systemic weaknesses and compares the evolution of law in Australia and New Zealand to highlight problems in Japan's refugee determination system. Ultimately, the book calls for Japan to reform failing systems and take innovative action towards refugee protection. ... Read more

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Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States serves as a one-stop source for the most important federal legislation affecting immigration and naturalization, supplementing any casebook on the subject. It includes the Immigration and Nationality Act, related federal statutes, excerpts from the Code of Federal Regulations, treaties, and selected immigration forms. ... Read more

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In 1996, Congress passed expansive laws to control illegal immigration, imposing mandatory detention and deportation for even minor violations. Critics argued that such legislation violated civil liberties and human rights; correspondingly, in 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that many facets of the 1996 statutes were unconstitutional. Michael Welch shows how what he calls "moral panic" led to the passage of the 1996 laws and the adverse effects they have had on the Immigration and Naturalization Service, producing a booming detainee population and an array of human rights violations."Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex" offers sensible recommendations for reform along with an enlightened understanding of immigration. In an epilogue, Welch examines closely the government's campaign to fight terrorism at home, especially the use of racial profiling, mass detention, and secret evidence. Recently, the INS, particularly its enforcement and detention operations have expanded dramatically.This book will offer many readers their first look inside that system.It will be an invaluable guide to thinking through whether the system is fit to take on the additional responsibilities being asked of it in the post-September 11th world. Author note: Michael Welch is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is author of numerous articles on penology and criminalization campaigns. His other books include "Punishment in America: Social Control & the Ironies of Imprisonment", "Corrections: A Critical Approach", and "Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest". ... Read more

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Clarifies the organizational structure of the new Department of Homeland SecurityAddresses use of electronic media for immigration applicationsExplains permanent residence applicationsPoses questions concerning the increased need for security and the shortage of low and semi-skilled workers for jobs that U.S. citizens typically find unappealingDiscusses the recently approved Child Status Protection Act (CSPA)Includes important government policy memoranda identifying the government's philosophical approach to immigration ... Read more

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interesting, accurate and up to date
as an attorney practicing in an area of law unrelated to immigration, I needed to learn enought immigration law to intelligently discuss the subject with an expert in the field.This book did the job and then some. I highly recommended it. ... Read more

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After your casebook, Casenote Legal Briefs will be your most important reference source for the entire semester. It is the most popular legal briefs series available, with over 140 titles, and is relied on by thousands of students for its expert case summaries, comprehensive analysis of concurrences and dissents, as well as of the majority opinion in the briefs.

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Buy this and forget the textbook
This book was so much more useful than the useless and expensive textbook it goes with. By this instead and just occasionally borrow your friend's textbook if you really need it.

Does its Job
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Slowing Decades of Mass Immigration
Dr. Otis Graham, a venerable public historian with an impressive body of work on the progressive era and New Deal, ranks as the nation's premier historian of America's faltering efforts since World War II to rationalize its expansive immigration policies.

Graham has a unique perspective.He has observed, recorded and analyzed the nation's myth-plagued, profit-driven, and often mindless management of mass immigration.He has also been a founder and leader of now formidable citizens' movements to reduce immigration to numbers and content consistent with the overriding national interest in population stability, environmental sanity, and social cohesion.Graham has been a founder and board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies and Californians for Population Stability.

The author traces the origins of the modern immigration reduction movement to the rising concerns in the early 60s over the population growth stemming from the baby boom all the way to the present day with pressures again building in Congress to legalize 12 million illegal aliens and further expand entries of guest workers and relatives of earlier immigrants. As the baby-boom ebbed in the early 60s and population stability seemed imminent, Graham was among the first environmentalists to grasp the extent to which rising immigration was replacing natural increase the new accelerator of U.S. population growth. For him, America's immigration policy, a captive of special interests, was more than offsetting the falling fertility of Americans, thus moving back the goal posts of U.S. population stability.

Otis Graham's book gives us a rich and detailed backdrop for citizen engagement in the impending struggle of "Big Immigration" interests to legislate more the same for an era in which America's economy, labor force, resource base and environment is undergoing deep and incompletely understood change.This work is the consummate guide book for those of us who need to understand where we have come from on immigration policy in order to see clearly and with determination how far we still have to go to make immigration serve the national interest

Red Flag Of Immigration Danger from Key Reform Pioneer
Red Flag Of Immigration Danger from Key Reform Pioneer
Otis L. Graham, Jr., Author House, Bloomington, Ind Nov, 2008
One of our premier American history writers has chosen to summarize the saga of mass immigration since the inauguration of the Immigration Act of 1965.The need for true immigration reform has now reached the political boiling point and threatens to affect profoundly the future of America, but certainly in near term the perceived success or failure of the highly vaunted Barack Obama Presidency.

Earlier books by this author have long demonstrated the Graham command of the American historycanon, particularly such books as "Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis (2002), "Franklin D. Roosevelt: His Life and Times: An Encyclopedic View" with Meghan Wander (1990) and "The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America 1900-1928 (1987), some 17 books in all.

However, this latest history covers a much more personal aspect of the author's odyssey, as he came out of the 1960's turbulent social movements to surprise himself by confronting the works of earlier authors of such seminal and prescient books as "Our Plundered Planet" by Fairfield Osbourne, and "Road to Survival" by William Vogt, which triggered even earlier material, particularly a book by George Perkins Marshall, "Man and Nature" written in 1864, all of which predicted the trend of our planet toward "environmental and resource troubles, due to population growth and the mounting abuses of nature."

From there Graham became involved in seeking reasonable reform of our broken immigration system, joining the initial board in the late 1970's of what has become the premier reform organization involved in this field, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and later serving as Chair of the Board of the highly respected Center for Immigration Studies.

America has now arrived at that critical place in the immigration reform battle that his books have so well articulated and predicted.Reading this latest book will enlighten and embolden your actions at this urgently critical time.

A true wake up call on many policy issues for most Americans came as the Bush Administration fouled so many initiatives.However, the onset of what will be dubbed later as the Depression of 2008, our immersion in two unpopular foreign wars and the total capture of the Republican Party by the religious right and the multinational corporations, despite the deplorable record of leadership bythe Democratic Party in Congress, gave enough horsepower for Democrats aided by the disaffected Republicans and Independents to ride the back of an impeccably run Presidential campaign to major victories in Congress and to the White House in 2008.

History here isimportant to understand,. As the author so well describes, this potentially fatal blow to American democracy (the 1965 Immigration Act) was pushed through with assurances from leaders such as Edward Kennedy that there would be no increase in American numbers or any intensification of the rampant social dilemmas of today.The US population was 170 million then and is now 310 million, projected at present levels of alien arrivals at 500 million by 2050.

Since both 2008 major party candidates were in the pocket of the cheap labor business crowd which has financed the un-mandated voices of the ethno and ideo centered lobbies to pump for unlimited immigration, all these forces led by the US Chamber of Commerce,now are demanding, over the preference ofvast majority of US citizens that another amnesty like the failed 1986 Immigration Act by enacted. This Act, which was also touted as the solution to the gains already made by millions of legal and illegal aliens, proved simply to set the stage for even more massive influxes, again pushed by the same forces with totally personal agendas entirely ignoring the will of over 70 to 80% of all American citizens.

The details of all of this madness are etched in careful blow by blow documentation.It is a sad story but one which is now truly desperately close to destroying our country.

I voted for President Obama, understanding that his views on immigration were not good for Americans, but praying that reason would prevail, particularly in light of the economic conditions we now confront.But again, with the mass media paying court to the multinationals and their doxies, we are plunging ahead with no certain compass to achieve some key steps much be taken to correct the immigration crisis Graham describes.

Read this book, but understand its urgent call for political action.The latest data from the US Department of Homeland Security show our country, is permitting 138,000 immigrants to enter the US LEGALLY EVERY MONTH. That adds up to an annual rate of over 1.5 millionnew foreign workers (not countingillegal workers) added to our economy.

With American citizens losing hundreds of thousands of jobs a month, our government is allowing million of foreign workers to come here to take American jobs.We lost over 2 million jobs last year and millions more will be lost this year (2009).

Understand further the cost of those illegal aliens here presently is mounting to huge proportions. For example, in a study just released in January 2009, done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), we learn that the cost to the state of North Carolina per year is over $1 billion. And this level of costs is replicated or exceeded in many other states around the US.

President Obama purports his trillion dollar stimulus package will add 3 or 4 million new American jobs--while allowing the importation of 1.5 million foreign workers per year to take those jobs-again no counting illegal aliens coming here.

I have looked in the several papers I regularly read for signs of this 138,000 figure and have yet to see it. Lou Dobbs on CNN has mentioned it, but to my knowledge no one in the print media has.

No wonder newspapers are going down the tubes.

Have our Congress and our new President no shame? How can they not act, at the very least to approve the extension of E-Verify, the government's method of giving employers a quick confirmation of whether or not a job applicant is here legally. This system works 99% of the time as Lou Dobbs reported on his TV program on February 2, 2009.

NumbersUSA President Roy Beck points out that
"U.S. immigration policies are on automatic pilot. It doesn't matter how terrible the economy becomes--it doesn't matter that more than 11 million Americans are looking for a job and can't find one. No matter what, businesses can still seek to cut their labor costs by bringing in as many foreign workers as they did when the economy was booming."

So as we know, those who don't understand history are bound to allow bad history to repeat itselfand that is what Otis Graham's timely and definitive book will allow readers to realize the main point:.
It is unbelievable at a time like this that our Federal officials have lost sight of the obvious. They are asking American citizens to let them continue to print money to save the economy, which is in trouble because of their indifference and mismanagement, coupled with the greed and power of big business. And then they are not willing to enact legislation that can really help American citizens.

Unless American citizens take action and demand and expect a substantial moratorium on immigration and the extension of E-Verify, Graham tells us that we will have basically lost our own country to this invasion.

Don't fail to read this powerful history to help govern your future actions at the polls.
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Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially being treated as future citizens--Americans in waiting. Challenging current conceptions, the author deftly uncovers how this view, once so central to law and policy, has all but vanished. Motomura explains how America could create a more unified society by recovering this lost history and by giving immigrants more, but at the same time asking more of them. A timely, panoramic chronicle of immigration and citizenship in the United States, Americans in Waiting offers new ideas and a fresh perspective on current debates. ... Read more

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Americans in Waiting: Legal Immigrants on a Path to Naturalization
Americans in Waiting blends a thorough analysis of the turbulent history of U.S. citizenship and immigration with a normative legal theory of what ought to be done.Motomuro, a leading immigration law scholar, evades overly obfuscating legal jargon in lieu of style that can be enjoyed by any reader from all degrees of background knowledge.

Motomuro breaks legal immigration down into three views: immigration as contract, immigration as affiliation, and immigrants in transition, or what he otherwise terms as "Americans in Waiting."The third category is what Motomuro is most concerned with, hence the title of the book.Americans in Waiting are legal immigrants who are on a path to citizenship, but who have not or cannot naturalize yet (i.e: either they have not met the legal naturalization waiting period of 3-5 years for Legal Permanent Residents, administrative backlog, etc).While Motomuro argues that rights should be extended to this status of persons, such as voting, access to public benefits, and family reunification rights, he still believes there is reason for Americans in Waiting to remain a separate category from full-citizens.One categorical difference he believes should remain in tact is deportability for criminal acts.By recapturing key court cases, Motomuro traces the development of alienage law as we know it today and he also provides good reason for why his articulation is desirable for America and its future as a people.

I have been studying U.S. immigration and citizenship quite thoroughly for about a year now, but it was not until reading this book that so many key terms and distinctions between different statuses became so coherent.Motomuro sheds much clarity and insight onto a highly complex and vital social and political issue. Excellent all around!

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more people should read this well written piece of non fiction. the trouble is that few of our generation honestly know the details about America and rely on the telegraphic info of Fox news instead of gaining true knowledge. ... Read more

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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.

At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before.

Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations. ... Read more

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Chinese immigration West Coast of United States
This is a wonderful book which tells the story of the west coast immigration journey which involved a controversial path. The Chinese Exclusion Act that was enacted in 1882 and updated periodically until 1943 was passed to restrict Chinese immigration into the United States. That legislation limited immigration on the basis of nationality or race for the first time.During the twentieth century, various other Asian ethnic groups were added to the excluded list to limit immigration from different parts of the Far East.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the 1943 Magnuson Act which permitted Chinese nationals already residing in the country to become naturalized citizens. It also allowed a federal quota of 105 Chinese immigrants per year, although significant Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965. I suggest you read further at http://www.sunglaw.com

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Erika Lee is a very angry woman. Her diatribe on American immigration policy equates anyone who is concerned about porous borders , the enforcement of laws in a nation of laws, and containment of disease as being a racist. It's hardly fair. And it detracts from her history of immigration legislation and enforcement. Yes, the Chinese Exclusion Act was reprehensible. Yes, we were and are a nation filled with racial prejudices and hatreds.
Immigration restrictions on other ethnic groups, according to Lee, were reflections of a racist policy towards Asians. She admits that the numbers of Asian immigrants was historically small and generally confined to the west coast. She then invests California, and San Francisco in particular, with an enormous amount of political power which was used to restrict immigration throughout the country. Lee is not convincing in her contention that the immigration issue was driven purely by an irrational racist beliefs and concerns over invading Asian hordes. She did not fully explain how the United States Congress, 3,000 miles distant, and generally unaffected by Asian immigration would develop a policy arising out of racism towards a group of which they were barely aware.
Exclusion based upon race is wrong. Looking different, having different cultural traditions, and not speaking the dominant language of English were and are roadblocks for all immigrants, not just the Chinese. Lee is a constant apologist for behaving as an outsider while expecting to be treated as an insider. Blaming national policy decisions on racial attitudes is too simplistic. Lee could have made an argument which addressed the nativistic xenophobia that was prevalent in the Gilded Age which was partly due to the arrival of masses of southern and eastern European immigrants. She could have argued that the closing and consequent filling of the frontier caused concerns about immigration in general. She contends that Angel Island was more racist than Ellis Island. She is too quick to condemn.
Chapter Four does provide valuable information on Chinese coming to the United States as sojourners. She explains that the immigrants are not unskilled laborers, but rather people who could improve the nation. She provides a good comparison between unskilled Mexican and Asian immigrants who come to this country in order to provide for their families back in the home country. Although she describes how employers needed these laborers, she doesn't investigate the economic impact of taking earnings out of the country rather than investing them in the country. She also provides a good description of how the Chinese with the help of immigration attorneys sought to and often did circumvent the law. She seems to imply that if some people can find loopholes in laws, then the laws should be repealed, or that people who manage to arrive in this country illegally should be rewarded for their tenacity by receiving amnesty.
Lee has researched her subject thoroughly. Her list of oral and written primary documents is impressive. However, Lee's book graphically demonstrates the difficulty that the United States now has in reforming its immigration policies and enforcing its borders (what Lee refers to as gatekeepers). To paraphrase Robert Frost, good fences make good neighbors. It appears that a concern for national security will generate an automatic response that such concerns are racist rather than a practical solution to security issues.
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This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999. At Tampere, Heads of State and Government met to set guidelines for the implementation of the powers and competences introduced by the Amsterdam Treaty and make the development of the Union as an area of freedom, security and justice a reality. Since 1999, a substantial body of law and policy has developed, but the process has been lengthy and the results open to critique.This book presents a series of analyses of and reflections on the major legal instruments and policy themes, with the underlying question, to what extent the ideals held out of 'freedom, security and justice accessible to all', are in fact reflected in these legislative and policy developments.Has freedom from terrorism and the spectre of illegal or irregular migration, and increasingly strict border securitisation and surveillance overshadowed the freedom of the migrant to seek entry or residence for legitimate touristic, work, study, or family reasons, a secure refuge from persecution, and effective access to justice?In 2004, the Heads of State and Government presented a programme for the next stage of development in these areas, the Hague Programme, and the Directives and Regulations that have been agreed are now being transposed and applied in Member States legal systems.What are the main challenges in the years ahead as the Hague Programme and the existing legislative acquis are implemented? ... Read more