immigration

Description based on print version record. Introduces issues related to illegal immigration and examines the pros and cons of the debate.

How long have people been coming to Canada? This book is about immigrants, because Canada is made of people who've come here from every country in the world.

This work is an overview of America's attempts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration, with discussions of every immigration law passed since 1965, crucial court cases, key actors and organizations, and proposed solutions.

Journalist and researcher Laufer helps to understand the background to the current state of Mexican immigration: the story of how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants, the bloating of the mismanaged Immigration and Naturalization Service, the deterioration of living standards along the frontier, and the enrichment of American employers. Laufer argues for free movement across the border, ending a deadly charade that taunts and abuses workers the U.S. economy deperately needs, and making it easier for the U.S. to enforce restrictions against those people to whom it wants to deny entry.--From publisher description.

After 9/11 the U.S. government began to close its borders in an effort to fight terrorism. The Bush administration's goal was to build new lines of defense without stifling the flow of people and ideas from abroad that has helped build the world's most dynamic economy. Unfortunately it did not work out that way. This book is an assessment of the dangers faced by a nation that cuts itself off from the rest of the world.