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Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing multimedia stir up worry over "anchor newborns", job stealing, welfare dependence, bilingualism, al-Qaeda terrorists disguised as Latinos, even a conspiracy by Latinos to "retake" the Southwest. Condition and local government authorities have handed more than 300 laws and regulations that attempt to restrict undocumented immigrants' access to hospitals, universities, food stamps, and driver's licenses. Government immigration authorities level factory raids that result in arrests, deportations, and busted young families - and leave owners scrambling to load suddenly open jobs. And yet polls show a majority of People in the usa support some kind of way to citizenship for those here illegally. The proceedings? In this booklet, John Tirman shows the way the level of resistance to immigration in the us is more ethnic than political. Although cloaked in terms about jobs and secure borders, the cultural level of resistance to immigration expresses a dread that immigrants are changing the prominent white, Protestant, "real North american" culture. Tirman explains the "raid mentality" in our response to immigration, which seeks violent solutions for a sociable phenomenon. The existing "round them up, deport them, militarize the boundary" methodology, Tirman shows, solves nothing.
