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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States -- Chapter 3. The Police and Immigration -- Chapter 4. Immigration and the Courts -- Chapter 5. The Detention and Deportation of Immigrants -- Chapter 6. The Consequences of Criminalizing Immigration -- Chapter 7. Framing the Immigration Problem -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

In Immigration Outside the Law, acclaimed immigration law expert Hiroshi Motomura, addresses the fraught issue of illegal immigration to the United States, which has become one of the most controversial political and social issues in contemporary America.

Recognizing the need for a sympathetic construction of immigrants as a precursor to comprehensive immigration reform that goes beyond enforcement prerogatives, this article surveys the various "faces" of immigration reform - both of advocates for progressive reform and the potentially sympathetic group images they wield. The article concludes that no image - whether of undocumented workers generally, farm laborers, immigrant children and Dreamers, or undocumented veterans - is poised to garner sympathy from voters and policymakers, particularly against the backdrop of the current economic crisis. Reform may hinge, then, on interest convergence so powerful that it transcends the prevailing negative portrayals of immigrants and our economic woes. As the article speculates in reviewing various grounds of convergence, an effective convergence may come from a surprising but transitory and muted source - the self-interest of politicians rather than from any innate courage or economic convergence.