illegal aliens

As a boy, Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the United States legally with his family. But life in New York city was harder than they imagined. Their visas lapsed and Dan-El's father returned to Santo Domingo. But Dan-el's mother was determined to stay and make a better life for her bright sons. Without papers, that seemed impossible. But she continued to persevere. Soon they were homeless. In a shelter the grade-school aged Dan-el met Jeff, a young art teacher from a wealthy family. Taken with Dan-el's passion for books and learning, Jeff helped him to earn a scholarship tp Collegiate, the oldest private school in the country. Dan-el soon rose to the top of his class and learned to navigate the rough streets of East Harlem where hid lived with his mother and brother and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school. From Collegiate, Dan-el went on to Princeton. He decided to "cone out" as an undocumented student in a Wall Street Journal profile a few months before he gave the salutorian's traditional address in Latin at his commencement. After earning a PH.D in classics at Stanford University, he is currently a Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University.

A collection of essays about people who have attempted to illegally cross borders. Includes information about fifteen-hundred people who have died, four-thousand people who have been deported, and more than two million people imprisoned for trying to cross borders world-wide in 2011.

A collection of essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to illegal immigration including how the government policy should be reformed, the impact of illegal immigrants, and more.

"This book traces the origins of the 'illegal alien' in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy -- a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s -- its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation's contiguous land borders and their patrol."--from back cover.

Explains what it means to be an undocumented immigrant, and discusses the reasons for immigrating illegally, the often dangerous journey, immigrants' rights, their role in the economy, immigration law, deportation, and the route to citizenship.

"Mateo's big brother Julian works in the United States. When the family doesn't hear from Julian for a few weeks, Mateo sneaks out and journeys north to find him, crossing the border with the help of a new friend, Angel"--Provided by publisher.

Appointed Earth's ambassador to the universe, twelve-year-old Gabe Fuentes faces two sets of "alien" problems when he discovers his parents are illegal aliens and face deportation and the Earth is in the path of a destructive alien force causing multiple mass extinctions.

Eighteen-year-old Jos? serves as the bridge between his non-English speaking family and the rest of the world, and because his parents are illegal immigrants and extended family lives with them, money is tight so Jos? works nights and arrives at school so tired that teachers at his alternative high school step in to help.

Collects an assortment of critical essays that debate various topics relating to immigration, from whether immigration is a serious issue in the United States to how the U.S. government should respond to illegal immigration.