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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

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

Southwest USA Travel Guide

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on a twisting drive through rugged Jerome. Reflect on Native American history as you drive below a mesa-top Hopi village. Political controversies – such as immigration reform and budget slashing – have grabbed headlines recently, but these hot-button issues need perspective. Politicians are temporary. But the sunset beauty of the Grand Canyon

The Upside of Inequality

by Edward Conard · 1 Sep 2016 · 436pp · 98,538 words

a World of Ideas,” American Economic Review 92, no. 1 (2002), http://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/SourcesAER2002.pdf. 55. Giovanni Peri, “The Economic Windfall of Immigration Reform,” Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2013, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324196204578297850464590498. 56. Scott Anderson, “Immigrants and Billion Dollar Startups,” National Foundation for American Policy

"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky · 23 Apr 2018 · 219pp · 62,816 words

TRUMP, IMMIGRATION, AND THE WORKING CLASS It wasn’t that big a jump from President Bill Clinton’s criminalization of immigrants with the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) to Obama’s recriminalization with humanitarian exceptions, to candidate and then president Donald Trump’s repeated references to immigrants as

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workers for low-paying jobs? Yes. But the reason that this competition exists is because too many people are deprived of rights. The proposals for immigration reform that are circulating today do nothing to expand the rights of those currently excluded—in fact they do just the opposite. Further restrictions on immigration

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, then, that 39 percent of undocumented immigrant children live below the poverty line, and 53 percent lack health insurance.8 The results of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which granted amnesty to a significant portion of the undocumented population then in the United States, are also clear. Once they achieved

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the Border Patrol to keep Mexicans out. (I describe these restrictions in more detail in the section on immigration and race below.) The last major immigration reform, in 1965, finally removed the racially defined quota system, and replaced it with a uniform quota system for all countries. But the new laws of

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against the INS for “engag[ing] in a pattern and practice of pressuring or intimidating Salvadorans” to discourage them from applying for asylum, the 1996 immigration reforms imposed new obstacles for asylum applicants. For people already in the United States, a time limit was imposed: if they remained in the country for

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. Civil rights legislation passed in the 1950s and 1960s furthered the job begun in the 1860s of creating a legal basis for racial equality. The immigration reforms of the 1960s (discussed in Part One) ostensibly created racial equality in immigration policy as well, by granting equal quotas to all countries. Nevertheless, the

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. We could start by rolling back the punitive and discriminatory changes that have been made in the last several decades, especially in the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.1 Revoking some of the most draconian elements of that law would be a logical first step in a process aimed

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. 1981 Immigrants who are not legal permanent residents denied access to most federal aid programs. 1982 Operation Jobs—INS raids workplaces, arrests 5,000. 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) allows undocumented immigrants who can prove continued presence in the country since 1982 and fulfill other requirements to apply for legalization

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federal aid programs (food stamps, Medicaid) unless they have lived in the U.S. for five years, and allows states to create further restrictions. Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) greatly increases funding for Border Patrol and detention of aliens; increases penalties for unlawful entry and facilitates deportation; requires proof

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of endorsers at www.nnirr.org/projects/immigrationreform/statement.htm. 3. “Statement by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney on President Bush’s Principles for Immigration Reform,” January 8, 2004, www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/pr01082004.cfm. 4. Elizabeth Auster, “Guest Worker Proposals Divide America’s Unions,” The Plain Dealer, April 6

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Belleaud, “Governor Vetoes Attempt to Criminalize Immigrants’ Presence in Arizona,” Associate Press, April 18, 2006. 9. “Earned Legalization and Increased Border Security Is Key to Immigration Reform According to Republican Voters: New Poll,” Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, October 17, 2005, www.manhattan-institute.org/html/immigration_pol_pr.htm. 10. Opinion

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

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman · 22 Nov 2016 · 602pp · 177,874 words

and turn it into a monoculture that’s enormously susceptible to diseased ideas: climate change is a hoax; evolution never happened; we don’t need immigration reform. All of this weakened the G.O.P.’s foundation and opened the way for an invasive species such as Donald Trump to make deep

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It

by Matthew Williams · 23 Mar 2021 · 592pp · 125,186 words

- or anti-immigration, which would be selected at random – in reality, 90 per cent were assigned a staunchly anti-immigrant organisation, the Federation of American Immigration Reform. Subjects were then asked if they would like to authorise the donation of one dollar to the ‘randomly’ selected organisation on their behalf. Importantly, half

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; trauma and containment, 1, 2; trigger events, 1, 2, 3 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Federation of American Immigration Reform, 1 Ferguson, Missouri, 1 Festinger, Leon, 1 fiction, 1 Fields, Ted, 1 50 Cent Army, 1 ‘fight or flight’ response, 1, 2, 3 films, 1

Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

by Colin Yeo; · 15 Feb 2020 · 393pp · 102,801 words

seems to be evidence-based policy-making, and the more it resembles a moral crusade. NOTES 1 ‘Lib Dem MP attacks coalition’s plans for immigration reform’, The Guardian, 13 July 2013. 2 Baker v Abellio London Ltd [2017] UKEAT 0250_16_0510. 3 See part 6a of the Immigration Rules, entitled

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of the rules they made, ministers often decline to follow them. Theresa May was never explicit about what she expected those affected by the family immigration reforms of 2012 to do. Should they work harder or get higher-paying jobs in order to meet the rules? With 40 per cent of the

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

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The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite

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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move

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