Full Description
This second edition is an update of the intersection of border security, immigration, and assimilation in the U.S.A. In addition to the history of immigration and custom services and shifts in attitudes about immigration, this edition provides new information about the operations of the Department of Homeland Security to secure the border. A new chapter examines developments in immigration policy relating to the border wall, family separation, unaccompanied immigrant minors and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. The book includes real-life stories of difficult incidents that arise due to the complicated relationship between immigration and border security. The authors review prospects for comprehensive immigration policy and border security policy.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: At the Intersection of Migration, Social Facts, and Security
Chapter 1: To Protect the Border
Chapter 2: To Facilitate Trade and Travel
Chapter 3: Immigration, Prejudice and Profiling, and Society's Wars
Chapter 4: Securing the Border Since 1789: Customs, Immigration, and Agriculture Inspections
Chapter 5: A Nation of Immigrants: The Required Background Story
Chapter 6: Assimilation in America
Chapter 7: Incident Logs from the Border
Chapter 8: Separations and Walls
Appendix A: Immigration Legislation
Appendix B: A Log of Administrative Directives and Proclamations for Immigration and Border Security Since 2017
Appendix C: Selected Data on Naturalizations, Refugees, Individuals Granted Asylum, and Aliens Removed, 2008-2017
Appendix D: United States Border Patrol, Southwest Border Sectors, Total Illegal Alien Apprehensions by Fiscal Year
Notes
Index
About the Authors
