Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America
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by: Daniel J. Tichenor
Topics include: alien inflows, immigration defenders, liberal immigration reformers, immigration policy regimes, congressional immigration committees, immigration expertise, partisan speakership, new restrictionist movement, congressional restrictionists, kindred ethnic groups, robust immigration, expansive immigration policies, other restrictionist groups, legal immigration reform, employer sanctions legislation, illegal immigration control, restrictionist cause, easy naturalization, immigrant admissions, new preference system, nonwhite newcomers, major immigration reform, nonquota status, immigration subcommittee, alien admissions
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...while most Americans favor tighter restrictions on immigration, politicians nowadays rarely enact such laws. Instead they usually increase immigration levels despite broad public opposition. Tichenor argues that this is because a "policy regime" has been structured over time, encompassing the immigration committees in both houses of Congress, and including the preferences of strong pro-immigration interest groups, that pushes for liberalization of immigration laws. Only rarely in American history do restrictionists succeed in limiting immigration, most notably from the 1920's until the landmark 1964 law that set off the wave of immigrants from Latin America and Asia we still experience today.
...the history of immigration politics in the America by showing the shifting alliances of groups and their interest in the level of immigration and the rights that should be given to immigrants. He uses a simple two by two grid throughout the book to illustrate this changing alliance. For instance the labor movement went from pro-immigrant around 1890 to anti-immigrant for most of the 20th century and became pro-immigrant again in the 1980's.
Dividing Lines also shows difference in the politics of legislation versus enforcement and between what the public says they want and what the politicians actually enact. For example, author shows why we have laws mandating employer sanctions and yet we have almost no enforcement of those laws by the executive branch.
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