Immigration, Assimilation, and Border Security

By (author) Yoku Shaw-Taylor, Lorraine McCall

Publication date:

15 December 2011

Length of book:

236 pages

Publisher

Government Institutes

Dimensions:

239x163mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781605907192

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

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