Defining America: Through Immigration Policy / Edition 1

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	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	1
Part I	Defining America
1.	The Western European New World and the New Americans	11
2.	The Undesirable Asian	28
3.	"Translate This": The 1917 Literacy Law	51
4.	The Xenophobic 1920s	62
Part II	Redefining America
5.	The 1952 Act: Excluding Communists, Homosexuals, and Other Undesirables	73
6.	1965 to 1990: From Discriminatory Quotas to Discriminatory Diversity Visas	93
Part III	Defining Mexicans as Non-Americans
7.	Politicizing the Southwest Border	115
8.	Patrolling the Border and Sweeping for Mexicans	134
9.	Irca: Penalizing Employers, as Amnesty Barely Survives	155
10.	The Dark Side of Modern-Day Enforcement: Operation Gatekeeper	184
Part IV	Deporting and Barring Non-Americans
11.	Removal	209
12.	The Politics of Asylum	233
	Epilogue: Two Americas	259
	Appendix	277
	Notes	285
	Index	317

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