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Among the most tumultuous conflicts of modern America is the war over legal and undocumented immigrants currently residing within U.S. borders. Since the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, America has witnessed an unprecedented flow of immigrants onto its shores, with increased diversity of race and culture. Battleground: Immigration examines the most critical issues surrounding immigration today, including effects on the economy, education, and employment, as well as the viability of the foreign-born in American society. All sides of the immigration debate are explored in

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Unauthorized Immigrants: Who they are and what the Public Thinks -- 2. Executive Action on Immigration is Necessary -- 3. Executive Action on Immigration Sets a Dangerous Precedent -- 4. Obama has the Law-and Reagan-on his Side on Immigration -- 5. Crafting a Successful Legalization Program: Lessons from the Past -- 6. Mass Legalization for Unauthorized Immigrants is a Bad Idea -- 7. Yes, Amnesty Encourages More Illegal Immigration -- 8. Legalization of Unauthorized Immigrants would Benefit the US Economy -- 9. Legalization of Unauthorized Immigrants would Burden the US Economy -- 10. The Green Economy and a Path to Citizenship -- 11. A Path to Citizenship should not be a Part of Immigration Reform -- 12. Should there be a Path to Citizenship? -- 13. Immigration Reform as a Path to Conscience, not Just Citizenship -- 14. A Guest-Worker Program is the Best Immigration Reform -- 15. Amnesty is the Only Feasible Solution to the Immigration Problem -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

In this article, the authors demonstrate that immigration control must be seen as a rationing of access to a rare commodity to which a multitude have an equal right. The article infers two possible criteria for the selection of candidates for immigration, neither of which permits the destination country's political community to select systematically immigrants for their own interests. Adapted from the source document.

A collection of articles debating the seriousness of illegal immigration and the adequacy of immigration laws in America

The Supreme Court's jurisprudence is littered with special immigration doctrines that depart from mainstream constitutional norms. This Article reconciles these doctrines of "immigration exceptionalism" across constitutional dimensions. Historically, courts and commentators have considered whether immigration warrants exceptional treatment as pertains to rights, federalism, or separation of powers—as if developments in each doctrinal setting can be siloed. This Article rejects that approach, beginning with its underlying premise. Using contemporary examples, we demonstrate how the Court's immigration doctrines dynamically interact with each other, and with politics, in ways that affect the whole system. This intervention provides a far more accurate rendering of how immigration exceptionalism translates into practice. By simultaneously accounting for rights, federalism, and separation of powers, our model captures a set of normative tradeoffs that context-specific appraisals have dangerously missed. For better and worse, the doctrines of immigration exceptionalism can operate very differently in combination than they do in isolation. Moreover, our expanded frame offers new insights on controversies arising at the intersection of constitutional dimensions, including the recent landmarks of United States v. Texas, Arizona v. United States, and President Trump's executive orders issued in his first few weeks in office. Indeed, the transition between Presidents with drastically different views on immigration crystallizes the types of tradeoffs the Article highlights.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Selection of Immigrants -- 2. Economic Assimilation -- 3. Immigration and the Wage Structure: Theory -- 4. The Wage Effects of Immigration: Descriptive Evidence -- 5. The Wage Effects of Immigration: Structural Estimates -- 6. Labor Market Adjustments to Immigration -- 7. The Economic Benefits from Immigration -- 8. High-Skill Immigration -- 9. The Second Generation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Mathematical Notes -- Appendix B: Construction of Data Extracts -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Open Immigration: Yea by Alex NowrastehExtensive immigration restrictions are an attempt by the U.S. government to centrally manage the demographics, labor market, and culture of the United States instead of letting those facets of our society develop naturally – as they have throughout most of history. Many objections have been raised against a return to America's traditional free-immigration policy, but they are without merit and ignore immigration's tremendous benefits.In this Broadside, Alex Nowrasteh explains how a policy of open immigration is consistent with America's founding principle

The article aims to provide an extended reflection on Michael Howard's (former Leader of the British Conservative Party) 2005 pre-election speech on immigra- tion, in order to expose the violence and ethical corruption embedded within the political discourse and policies of immigration in Britain and elsewhere. It does so by referring to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy regarding figures of immanentism which, in the case of immigration control, function through the will to absolute separation, technicism and the notion of mythical collective identity. As a response to this problem of immanentism, the ethico-political thinking of Levinas and Derrida is invoked in an attempt to stress upon the necessity of a politics of generosity founded on ethical hospitality and total exposure to alterity rather than self-enclosure and fear of otherness.

Selected topics and policy issues on immigrants and immigration into the US; gays and lesbians, gangs, religion, and tattoos, Romanian Gypsies, terrorism and counterterrorism, social justice, cultural identity and Burmese American Buddhists, and women and Pentecostal experience; 7 articles. Contents: Gays and lesbians in the U.S. immigration process, by Lorrie Rank; Migrant gangs, religion and tattoo removal, by Luis Enrique Bazan, Liliana Harris, and Lois Ann Lorentzen; Romanian Gypsies, by Valeriu Nicolae; Immigrants, terrorism and counter-terrorism, by Henry F. Carey; Immigration and social justice, by David Ingram; Cultural identity and Burmese American Buddhists, by Joseph Cheah; Women, migration, and the Pentecostal experience, by Rosalina Mira and Lois Ann Lorentzen.