Book Description
Argues for the DREAM Act and immigration reform, exploring key issues surrounding the legislation.
Author : William A. Schwab
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1557286388
Argues for the DREAM Act and immigration reform, exploring key issues surrounding the legislation.
Author : Council on Foreign Relations. Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0876094213
Few issues on the American political agenda are more complex or divisive than immigration. There is no shortage of problems with current policies and practices, from the difficulties and delays that confront many legal immigrants to the large number of illegal immigrants living in the country. Moreover, few issues touch as many areas of U.S. domestic life and foreign policy. Immigration is a matter of homeland security and international competitiveness, as well as a deeply human issue central to the lives of millions of individuals and families. It cuts to the heart of questions of citizenship and American identity and plays a large role in shaping both America's reality and its image in the world. Immigration's emergence as a foreign policy issue coincides with the increasing reach of globalization. Not only must countries today compete to attract and retain talented people from around the world, but the view of the United States as a place of unparalleled openness and opportunity is also crucial to the maintenance of American leadership. There is a consensus that current policy is not serving the United States well on any of these fronts. Yet agreement on reform has proved elusive. The goal of the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy was to examine this complex issue and craft a nuanced strategy for reforming immigration policies and practices.
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Page : 175 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Border security
ISBN : 9780983159155
This report describes for the first time the totality and evolution since the mid-1980s of the current-day immigration enforcement machinery. The report's key findings demonstrate that the nation has reached an historical turning point in meeting long-standing immigration enforcement challenges. The question is no longer whether the government is willing and able to enforce the nation's immigration laws, but how enforcement resources and mandates can best be mobilized to control illegal immigration and ensure the integrity of the nation's immigration laws and traditions.
Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Adam B. Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190694386
Who controls American immigration policy? The biggest immigration controversies of the last decade have all involved policies produced by the President policies such as President Obama's decision to protect Dreamers from deportation and President Trump's proclamation banning immigrants from several majority-Muslim nations. While critics of these policies have been separated by a vast ideological chasm, their broadsides have embodied the same widely shared belief: that Congress, not the President, ought to dictate who may come to the United States and who will be forced to leave. This belief is a myth. In The President and Immigration Law, Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez chronicle the untold story of how, over the course of two centuries, the President became our immigration policymaker-in-chief. Diving deep into the history of American immigration policy from founding-era disputes over deporting sympathizers with France to contemporary debates about asylum-seekers at the Southern border they show how migration crises, real or imagined, have empowered presidents. Far more importantly, they also uncover how the Executive's ordinary power to decide when to enforce the law, and against whom, has become an extraordinarily powerful vehicle for making immigration policy. This pathbreaking account helps us understand how the United States ?has come to run an enormous shadow immigration system-one in which nearly half of all noncitizens in the country are living in violation of the law. It also provides a blueprint for reform, one that accepts rather than laments the role the President plays in shaping the national community, while also outlining strategies to curb the abuse of law enforcement authority in immigration and beyond.
Author : Joseph H. Carens
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN :
A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.
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Page : 2 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Alien criminals
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Author : Gabriel J. Chin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107084113
This is the first book on the landmark 1965 Immigration Act, which ended race-based immigration quotas and reshaped American demographics.
Author : John McCain
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501178024
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave is a fitting valedictory for a man who seldom backed down.” —The Guardian (US) “A book-length meditation on what it means to face the hard challenges of long life and the sobering likelihood of imminent death…A reflection on hardship, a homily on purpose, a celebration of life — and a challenge to Americans to live up to their values and founding principles at a time when both are in jeopardy.” —The Boston Globe In this candid political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life and what matters most. “I don’t know how much longer I’ll be here. Maybe I’ll have another five years…Maybe I’ll be gone before you read this. My predicament is, well, rather unpredictable. But I’m prepared for either contingency, or at least I’m getting prepared. I have some things I’d like to take care of first, some work that needs finishing, and some people I need to see. And I want to talk to my fellow Americans a little more if I may.” So writes John McCain in this inspiring, moving, frank, and deeply personal memoir. Written while confronting a mortal illness, McCain looks back with appreciation on his years in the Senate, his historic 2008 campaign for the presidency against Barack Obama, and his crusades on behalf of democracy and human rights in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Always the fighter, McCain attacks the spurious nationalism and political polarization afflicting American policy. He makes an impassioned case for democratic internationalism and bi-partisanship. He recalls his disagreements with several presidents, and minces no words in his objections to some of President Trump's statements and policies. At the same time, he tells stories of his most satisfying moments of public service and offers a positive vision of America that looks beyond the Trump presidency. The Restless Wave is John McCain at his best.
Author : Jeb Bush
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 1476713464
The immigration debate divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Bush and Bolick propose a six-point strategy for reworking our policies that begins with erasing all existing, outdated immigration structures and starting over. Their strategy is guided by two core principles: first, immigration is vital to America's future; second, any enduring resolution must adhere to the rule of law.