The present situation on the United States-Mexico border is not exactly new, but nearly a century old, and largely of the U.S.’s own making. Mexican labor first came to be used in the West after the United States enacted Chinese Exclusion, precisely when completion of the transcontinental railroad the Chinese had been imported to build […]
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After September 11
Guarding the Gates in a World on the Move
by Aristide Zolberg
Always on the lookout for opportunities to press their case, anti-immigration advocates lost no time after the attacks of September 11. As one of them pointed out in testimony before the Senate, It seems clear that the 19 terrorists of September 11 were all foreign citizens and entered the United States legally, as tourists, business […]