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  title info:
    title: Illegal
    sub title: how America's lawless immigration regime threatens us all
  name:
    name part: Cohen, Elizabeth F.
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In Illegal, prominent political scientist Elizabeth Cohen explores the dark history of US immigration policy and proposes a major new plan for full-scale reform. As Cohen shows, the United States has always maintained the right to exclude people from entry, from those deemed to have seditious intent to a broad category of "undesirables," which has at times included epileptics, prostitutes, beggars and anarchists. Cohen traces the particular invention of "illegal" immigration to 1882, when the Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted to suppress immigration by "undesirable" peoples of the world. Later, through the 1924 National Origins Quota Act, Congress massively expanded the scope of racial immigrant exclusions. However, as Cohen points out, the Registry Act of 1929 quietly provided a way for people who had come to the United States without legal status to eventually become legal and to naturalize. In subsequent decades, Congress began to distinguish legal from illegal immigration by mapping out the first roads to citizenry. Yet when the registry system was eventually undone in 1986 with the introduction of selective "amnesty" for documented immigrants, the problem of "the undocumented" snowballed into a legal and economic disaster. Employers kept hiring undocumented workers, incentivizing immigration, but a lack of papers could place migrant families in legal limbo. Thus, by 1996, we had a citizenship crisis, one exacerbated when terrorism became linked with unlawful immigration, manufactured by a Congress that had allowed its citizenship, related functions to atrophy.
  note: Elizabeth F. Cohen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration law
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Government policy
    topic: History
  classification: JV6483 .C54 2020
  classification: 325.73
  identifier: 9781541699847
  identifier: 154169984X
  identifier: 9781541699854
  identifier: 2019039593
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190923
    record change date: 20200729072102.0
    record identifier: in00004087063