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"A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights--the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the ... experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America today: immigration"--Amazon.com.
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2018.
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232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Recent world events have brought the issue of immigration to the forefront of media and journalism, cultural debates, and political campaigns. Calls for regulation are criticized as racist and xenophobic by some and deemed necessary by others. This resource addresses important questions surrounding the issue: How do immigration bans affect different groups? How can nations reconcile humanitarian and security concerns for refugees? How much of the...
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Amid the furious ocean there was no human sound on deck: some people standing, watching the wave, but no one capable of words. On the Java Ridge, skipper Isi Natoli and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef off the Indonesian island of Dana. In the Canberra office of Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, a Federal election looms and (not coincidentally) a hardline new policy is being announced regarding...
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[2022]
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xviii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
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Illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.
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Includes information on American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), amnesty, Arizona, Arizona Republic (newspaper), assimilation, Border Patrol, George W. Bush, California, crime, Democratic Party, document fraud, economy, education, Vicente Fox, guest worker legislation, health care, illegal aliens, immigration enforcement, immigration laws, Internal Revenue Service, Ted (Edward) Kennedy, political correctness, terrorism, visas, Wall Street Journal, xenophobia,...
10) Our 50-state border crisis: how the Mexican border fuels the drug epidemic in America's heartland
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[2018]
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xxviii, 356 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
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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.
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
13) Go back to where you came from: the backlash against immigration and the fate of western democracy
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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.
Opportunistic politicians have exploited the economic crisis, terrorist attacks, and an unprecedented influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse into the mainstream. Openly xenophobic ideas are becoming state policy. How...
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"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the globe, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West...
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"The Supreme Court has issued a decision, but that doesn't end the debate. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled, Americans face momentous debates about the nature of marriage and religious liberty. Because the Court has redefined marriage in all 50 states, we have to energetically protect our freedom to live according to conscience and faith as we work to rebuild a strong marriage culture. In the first book to respond to the Supreme Court's decision...
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2018.
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Why are some immigrants considered illegal? What happens to illegal immigrants after they are discovered in the United States? These questions and more are answered by this comprehensive look at a hot topic that is often debated on news programs and online. The accessible, objective text and full-color photographs give readers a balanced look at this complicated issue, and detailed sidebars provide additional information. Readers will benefit from...
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"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
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