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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman · 30 Jul 2008 · 278pp · 88,711 words

will result in a substantial increase in the power of the federal government. Since 1980 we have seen a steady erosion of government power. The immigration reform that will be needed around 2030 will require direct government management, however. If private businesses manage the process, the federal government at least will be

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021

to a 2,800 percent increase in the number of female prisoners, especially Black women, between 1970 and 2001.15 Provisions in both Reagan’s Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and the Anti–Drug Abuse Act of the same year targeted racialized immigrants through the creation of a new category

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platform for the next two decades. Building on Reagan’s legislation, Clinton passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of the same year. These acts expanded the category of aggravated felony convictions and widened the net for detention and deportation

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, prison, criminal court, detention center, reservation, plantation, and ‘border.’”42 Drawing on Black-led abolition movements, calls to abolish immigration enforcement replace assimilationist calls for immigration reform. The movement organized around the DREAM Act, for example, emphasized “good” and “deserving” migrants with college degrees, employment history, and clean criminal records and was

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, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34674374. Chapter 4 1.Perla Trevizo, “Tribes Seek to Join Immigration Reform Debate,” Arizona Daily Star, June 14, 2013, https://tucson.com/news/local/border/tribes-seek-to-join-immigration-reform-debate/article_d4fe1980-46d4-5e90-b690-ce78c5453bf1.html. 2.Michael Dear, Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing

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, 157 Hyndman, Jennifer, 68 I Ibarra, Honesto Silva, 135 Iceland, 187 Icelandic National Front, 187 Idle No More, 210 Ikatan Relawan Rakyat Malaysia, 136 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, 52 Illinois, 29 IMF. See International Monetary Fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement abolition of, 83 ACCESS program of, 29 Arpaio and

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Muslims, 54–56 of Palestinians, 57 organizing against, 1, 22 private prisons and, 81–82 protests against, 214 torture in, 30 “zero tolerance” and, 58 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 43 Immigration Restriction Act, 96 Immigration Restriction League, 207 Imperial Valley Anti-Communist Association, 35 India, 57, 88, 172–173

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border

by Francisco Cantú · 1 Jan 2018 · 191pp · 67,625 words

goal here is to get José out of detention and, essentially, to buy time with the appeals process and hope for better policy and eventual immigration reform down the line. José would still have no work permit, he’d still be living in the shadows, but he’d be protected, he could

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by Jeff Rubin · 19 May 2009 · 258pp · 83,303 words

Long Range Population-Immigration-Resource Planning is an umbrella group composed of the American Immigration Control Foundation, Californians for Population Stabilization, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and NumbersUSA. One of their advertisements makes the case that “America has problems—huge problems,” then goes on to say “all of these problems are

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis · 27 Aug 2001

- expressed to Sarah Mahler narratives of disillusion- ment: "Their portrayals of their dejection, marginalization lives in America are full of deceit, and exploitation." The 1986 Immigration Reform Act (IRC A), moreover, tionalized unprecedented extremes of economic and institu- social mar- THE PUERTO RICAN TRAGEDY While ginality. 2.5 million previously 109 undocumented

Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food

by Steve Striffler · 24 Jul 2007 · 208pp · 51,277 words

, I would like to return.26 Tighter border control, which began in the mid-s, has done little to stop illegal immigration. Between , when the Immigration Reform and Control Act was enacted, and , INS funding increased eightfold and Border Patrol funding sixfold. Yet, the number of illegal immigrants doubled during the same

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: ‘Come to America. We’ll make you rich.’ Those are damn empty promises.”22 Organized groups such as Project USA and the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) have fueled these anti-immigration sentiments. In , Project USA erected billboards in eleven states that called immigration a population crisis and cultural problem.23

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, regardless of where they are born, must labor under safe conditions, get paid a living wage, and not fear their employers. This will require serious immigration reform. The government—pushed by consumers, workers, farmers, environmentalists, and others—has to help create and support a legal and political climate in which workers and

Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia

by Ray Taras · 15 Dec 2009 · 267pp · 106,340 words

wholesome image as a society devoid of racism. Its record has been impressive: over the past fifty years, the Swiss refused to pass thirteen proposed immigration reforms, including the 18 percent initiative in 2000 which would have limited the foreign-born resident population to this figure. But the image of an idyllic

Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders

by Reihan Salam · 24 Sep 2018 · 197pp · 49,240 words

tolerated unauthorized immigration, which has arguably been the biggest source of low-skill immigration to the United States in recent decades. Prior to the 1965 immigration reform, migration from source countries in the Western Hemisphere was not subject to numerical limits. Migration flows from Latin America and the Caribbean were only lightly

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years to come.4 And I’m sympathetic to this point of view, as it really is true that the last large-scale amnesty—the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which ultimately granted legal status to three million unauthorized immigrants—was followed by further surges in unauthorized immigration. Nevertheless

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every year are given to the family members of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. For years, there’s been a growing consensus among immigration reformers on the left and right that we ought to consider rebalancing the influx, to place greater emphasis on skills.8 At the same time, however

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.pdf. 3. Wright, Matthew. “Ahead of government shutdown, Congress sets its sights on not-so-comprehensive immigration reform.” The Conversation, January 18, 2018. theconversation.com/ahead-of-government-shutdown-congress-sets-its-sights-on-not-so-comprehensive-immigration-reform-89998. 4. Krogstad, Jens Manuel, Jeffrey S. Passel, and D’Vera Cohn. “5 facts about

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, 88–91 Dreamers and DACA, 9–11, 157–59, 160–61 moral obligation argument, 129–30 Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, 35, 81–82 Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 162, 163–64 immigration restrictionists, 16, 50–51, 78, 83, 105, 157, 159–60 “immigration yes, welfare no” agenda, 51

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas · 19 Jan 2010 · 492pp · 70,082 words

as a preference category. The President and Congress determine the annual ceiling and country distributions (ceilings have ranged from 50,000–90,000). 1986: The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) legalized several undocumented immigrants but made it unlawful to hire undocumented workers. 1990: The Immigration Act of 1990 increased the annual

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700,000 and established the Immigrant Investor Program. 1996: Welfare Reform ended many cash and medical assistance programs for most legal immigrants. 1996: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) expanded enforcement operations of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 2001: The USA Patriot Act, in response to the September 11

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, 2001, terror attacks on New York and Washington, DC, gives federal officials greater power to intercept national and international communications. The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 was a bill that focused on managing unauthorized migration, but failed to pass the House. Its primary components were increased border security

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the infrastructure, and the country is divided on the current net worth of immigration in the twenty-first century. The Immigrant Workforce Recent foci on immigration reform and the guest worker program have drawn attention to undocumented workers. One must bear in mind in all deliberations that of the 34 million documented

Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles

by Mohammed Abdul Qadeer · 10 Mar 2016

immigration is heading towards the demographic reconquista of areas America took from Mexico by force in the 1830s and 1840s.”24 The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a lobby group for restricting immigration argues that present-day immigrants neither make significant contribution to the economy nor are they willing to adapt

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, 250 family and neighbourhood social relations, 128–30, 289n9 family structures, 51, 129, 146–7, 195–6, 198, 289n11 Fassenden, F., 67 Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), 52 fertility rates, 43 Filipinos: economic niches, 101, 105; enclaves, 66, 70, 232, 256; family structures, 129; as model minority, 105; political representation, 187

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