Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration CrisisThroughout America's history immigration policy has always been a controversial and complex topic, going to the heart of what it means to be American. Now, with terrorism as a new concern, Americans have begun to look closer at the effects of rising immigration and porous borders. In this cogently-argued work, immigration scholar Otis L. Graham, Jr. examines the history of immigration pressures and American policy debates and choices. He begins with the first "Great Wave" of the 1880s and traces the effects of the system of national origins, enforced from the 1920s through 1965. The reforms of the 1960s ushered in an era of large-scale legal and illegal immigration, resulting in a vast social experiment in demographic transformation. In assessing the past, present, and future of immigration, Graham shows that the failure to control the influx of foreigners is leading America toward further security risks, unsustainable population growth, imported worker competition with American labor, and, ultimately, social fragmentation. |
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Contents
Nation of the Native Born Unready for the Great Wave | 3 |
Immigration Reform Beginnings of National Policy | 9 |
Great Wave and the Search for National Policy | 15 |
Labeling of Reformers | 27 |
In Search of National Immigration Policy | 37 |
Reform Comes New System for Choosing and Limiting Americas Immigrants | 41 |
Immigration Restriction Results and Reflections | 57 |
Reform of the Reform? GateWidening Counterattack Quietly Begins | 67 |
Illegal Immigration Peaceful Invasion and Policy Ineptitude | 103 |
Case for Restriction Economics | 111 |
Case for Restriction Concern over National Cohesion | 117 |
Case for Restriction Immigrations PopulationEnvironment Connection | 135 |
Politics of Immigration The 1990s | 153 |
September 11 A Turning Point? | 165 |
Our Mass Immigration Era How Can This Be? | 179 |
Dogmas of the Past | 197 |
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