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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 247 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at a rate never before seen in American history. Hundreds of thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from their families, sometimes for years. Deportees are dropped off unceremoniously in sometimes dangerous Mexican border towns, or flown back to crime-ridden Central American nations. Many of the deported have lived in the United States for years, and have...
9) Ellis Island
Author
Publisher
Contemporary Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile."--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenges mainstream understandings in a reassessment of the U.S.-Mexico border crisis that reveals an unprecedented rate of drug trafficking directly related to the opioid epidemic, outlining bipartisan recommendations for fighting cartels and strengthening national security.
13) Invasion: how America still welcomes terrorists, criminals, and other foreign menaces to our shores
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xvi, 332 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
14) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the new political climate in Europe and the United States where xenophobia and racism have voted Britain out of the EU and catapulted Donald Trump to the presidency.
17) Immigration
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles mass immigration to the United States from the time of the early colonies to today.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inside the hard-fought battles and secret negotiations over immigration reform on Capitol Hill. Explore President Obama's push for policy changes that could impact the fate of millions and define what it means to be American for decades to come.
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