TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Kevin R.
AU  - Aldana,Raquel
AU  - Hing,Bill Ong
AU  - Saucedo,Leticia M.
AU  - Trucios-Haynes,Enid
TI  - Understanding immigration law
T2  - Understanding series
SN  - 9781531016135
AV  - KF 4819 .U53 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Durham, North Carolina
PB  - Carolina Academic Press, LLC
KW  - Emigration and immigration law
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigration enforcement
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Government policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Understanding and evaluating U.S. immigration law and policy -- The evolution of U.S. immigration law and policy -- The federal immigration power -- Immigration federalism -- Immigration actors : federal agencies and courts -- Judicial review -- Immigrant visas -- Nonimmigrant visas -- Inadmissibility grounds and waivers -- Asylum, withholding of removal, convention against torture and temporary protected status -- Admission procedures -- Removal -- The removal process -- Enforcement against undocumented immigrants -- Crimmigration -- The rights and responsibilities of immigrants -- Citizenship -- The future of American immigration law
N2  - "[This book] lays out the basics of U.S. immigration law in an accessible way to newcomers to the field. It offers background about the intellectual, historical, and constitutional foundations of U.S. immigration law. The book also identifies the factors that have historically fueled migration to the United States, including the economic 'pull' of jobs and family in the United States and the 'push' of economic hardship, political instability, and other facts of life in the sending country. Each chapter has been updated to analyze the unprecedented number of immigration enforcement measures--and many simply unprecedented measures--taken by the Trump administration..."--
ER  -