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Emigration and immigration Government policy Emigration and immigration law United States Emigration and immigration Political aspects Illegal aliens Government policy United States Illegal aliens United States Immigrants United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration United States United States Emigration and immigration Government policy United States Emigration and immigration Social aspectsChomsky, Aviva
Summary: "This book looks at the role illegality or undocumentedness plays in our society and economy. It shows how the status was created, and how and why people, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, have been assigned this status. The first three chapterslook at the histories of social exclusion. One looks specifically at the Mexican and Guatemalan contexts to understand why such large numbers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.137 CHOJones, Reece
Summary: "A searing indictment of the white racial politics behind American immigration restrictions from Chinese Exclusion through the Trump presidency"-- Donald Trump's mainstreaming of anti-immigrant politics in 2016 was a mere reflection of the ugly norm of the past. Jones traces the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and the racial rejection of slaves from Africa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JONOliva, Alejandra
Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 OLIRegan, Margaret
Summary: "The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at a rate never before seen in American history. Hundreds of thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from their families, sometimes for years. Deportees are dropped off unceremoniously in sometimes dangerous Mexican border towns, or flown back to crime-ridden Central American nations. Many of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325 REGGarcía Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc
Summary: "An in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 GARKerr, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: The Gift of Global Talent deftly transports readers from joyous celebrations at the Nobel Prize ceremony to angry airport protests against the Trump administration's travel ban. It explores why talented migration drives the knowledge economy, describes how universities and firms govern skilled admissions, explains the controversies of the H-1B visa used by firms like Google and Apple, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.6 KERMulligan Sepúlveda, J.J.
Summary: "For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the battle for immigration reform is personal. Mulligan Sepúlveda writes of visiting border detention centers, defending undocumented immigrants in court, and taking hisservices to JFK to represent people being turned away at the gates during Trump's infamous travel ban"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 MULPolakow-Suransky, Sasha
Summary: Discusses the new political climate in Europe and the United States where xenophobia and racism have voted Britain out of the EU and catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 POLCoulter, Ann H.
Summary: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter attacks the immigration issue head-on, flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity," and greedy Republican businessmen and campaign consultants -- all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 COUMehta, Suketu
Summary: "An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 MEHBush, Jeb.
Summary: From the former Republican governor of Florida and a leading constitutional litigator comes a timely and provocative look at one of the most divisive issues facing the nation today: immigration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 325.73 BUSAbramitzky, Ran
Summary: "Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala today are as likely to be as successful as the children of immigrants from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.6 ABRChomsky, Aviva
Summary: "Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations. In "They Take Our Jobs!" Aviva Chomsky challenges the underlying assumptions that fuel misinformed claims about immigrants, radically altering our notions of citizenship, discrimination, and U.S. history. Since it was first published,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 CHORiley, Jason.
Summary: A conservative columnist makes an eye-opening case for why immigration improves the lives of Americans and is important for the future of the country. He argues that our open-immigration policy goes a long way toward explaining the difference between robust economic growth in the United States and stagnation in places like Europe. Separating fact from myth in today's heated immigration debate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 RILChoy, Catherine Ceniza
Summary: "Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0495 CHOBuffett, Howard G
Summary: "From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 BUFBlitzer, Jonathan
Summary: "An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: "A timely and powerful chronicle of a generation's great civil rights battle as witnessed through the experiences of five young undocumented immigrants fighting to become Americans. We often call them DREAMers: young people who were brought or sent to the United States as children. They attend our local schools; work jobs that contribute to our economy. Some apply to attend university here,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 WIDSummary: "Immigration Matters brings together key movement leaders and academics in the immigration space to share cutting-edge approaches to the question of America's borders-who should be allowed in, and who, if anyone, should be kept out. The book delves into topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 IMMSummary: Examines the lives and issues of legal and illegal migrant agricultural workers and the American farmers who rely on them, in light of current United States immigration policy and anti-immigration sentiment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: White Hot Films 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Examines immigration policy under both the Trump and Obama administrations, investigates the origins of zero tolerance, and reveals the journeys and voices of children who were separated from their parents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SEPBuchanan, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
Summary: The conservative political thinker forecasts America's social and cultural collapse as he describes how current policies will cause a permanent loss of American sovereignty and independence and the impact of substituting ideology for true faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 BUCLuiselli, Valeria
Summary: "Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights thecontradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2017