Straddling the border : immigration policy and the INS /

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Annotation With the dual and often conflicting responsibilities of deterring illegal immigration and providing services to legal immigrants, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is a bureaucracy beset with contradictions. Critics fault the agency for failing to stop the entry of und...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Magaña, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
United States. > Immigration and Naturalization Service.
United States. > Immigration and Naturalization Service
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > National.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The immigration policy process: a recurring theme
  • Immigration policies and their impact on the INS
  • "We aren't sexy enough": working conditions at the INS
  • The Immigration Reform and Control Act: a case study
  • Social Services: a case study
  • Where are we in the immigration policy process?
  • Appendix 1. Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986
  • Appendix 2. Text of Proposition 187
  • Appendix 3. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of August 22, 1996
  • Appendix 4. Illegal immigration reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of September 30, 1996
  • Appendix 5. Policy summary
  • Appendix 6. Protocol questions
  • Appendix 7. Immigration laws, 1790-1996.

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