TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hing,Bill Ong
TI  - Defining America through immigration policy
SN  - 1592132324 (alk. paper)
AV  - JV6483 .H56 2004
U1  - 325.73 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-316) and index; PART I. DEFINING AMERICA : 1. The Western European New World and The New Americans -- 2. The Undesirable Asian -- 3. "Translate This": The 1917 Literacy Law -- 4. The Xenophobic 1920s.  PART II. REDEFINING AMERICA : 5. The 1952 Act: Excluding Communists, Homosexuals, and Other Undesirables -- 6. 1965 to 1990: From Discriminatory Quotas to Discriminatory Diversity Visas.  PART III. DEFINING MEXICANS AS NON-AMERICANS : 7. Politicizing the Southwest Border -- 8. Patrolling the Border and Sweeping for Mexicans -- 9. Irca: Penalizing Employers, as Amnesty Barely Survives -- 10. The Dark Side of Modern-Day Enforcement: Operation Gatekeeper.  PART IV. DEPORTING AND BARRING NON-AMERICANS : 11. Removal -- 12. The Politics of Asylum.  Epilogue: Two Americas
ER  -