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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: INS on the line
    sub title: making immigration law on the US-Mexico border, 1917-1954
  name:
    name part: Kang, S. Deborah
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 282 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was a special case. Here, the INS confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented it from replicating its achievements at the immigration stations of Angel Island and Ellis Island. In response to these challenges, local INS officials resorted to the law--amending, nullifying, and even rewriting the nation's immigration laws for the borderlands, as well as enforcing them. In The INS on the Line, S. Deborah Kang traces the ways in which the INS on the US-Mexico border made the nation's immigration laws over the course of the twentieth century. While the INS is primarily thought to be a law enforcement agency, Kang demonstrates that the agency also defined itself as a lawmaking body. Through a nuanced examination of the agency's admission, deportation, and enforcement practices in the Southwest, she reveals how local immigration officials constructed a complex approach to border control, one that closed the line in the name of nativism and national security, opened it for the benefit of transnational economic and social concerns, and redefined it as a vast legal jurisdiction for the policing of undocumented immigrants. Despite its contingent and local origins, this composite approach to border control, Kang concludes, continues to inform the daily operations of the nation's immigration agencies, American immigration law and policy, and conceptions of this border today"--
  table of contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Sectional Immigration Policy -- The Battle for the Border -- Repatriation and Reform -- An Agency in Crisis -- Making the Local National -- The Federal Regulation of the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: S. Deborah Kang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Border security
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Immigration enforcement
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Mexicans
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Border security
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Immigration and Naturalization Service.
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration law
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Latin America
    topic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Legal History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: USA.
      name part: Immigration and Naturalization Service.
  subject:
    topic: Grenzschutz
  subject:
    topic: Grenzgebiet
  subject:
    topic: Einwanderung
  subject:
    topic: Grenzpolitik
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  classification: JV6565 .K36 2017
  classification: 363.28/50973
  classification: HIS025000 HIS036060 LAW060000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: INS on the line
    name:
      name part: Kang, S. Deborah, 1970-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
    identifier: (DLC) 2016048283
  identifier: 9780199757435
  identifier: 0199757437
  identifier: 2016040692
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161019
    record change date: 20170926120305.0
    record identifier: in00003860841
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng