... and Nationality Act of 1965 can be traced to the pluralistic brand of Americanism advocated by liberals during the Cold War era. The chapter examines the intellectual underpinnings of the political and legislative discourse on immigration reform in the twenty years that followed World War II, paying particular...

...Chapter 6 analyzes Italian and Jewish reform advocates’ final efforts to abolish the national origins quota system but also sheds light on the constraints they faced in seeking reform. After pushing for immigration reform for over forty years, many of them, sensing that the window for reform...

...The conclusion focuses on the long-term ramifications of immigration reform activists’ limitations in 1965. Bringing the history of immigration reform to the present, the conclusion also reflects on the similarities and differences between immigration reform activists discussed in the book...

... was threatened by Central American death squads. Padres Asociados para Derechos Religiosos Educativos y Sociales PADRES Reagan Ronald United Neighborhoods Organization UNO Immigration Reform and Control Act IRCA Boyle Fr Greg Howard Fr Dick Kennedy Fr Michael Mahony Archbishop Roger John Paul II pope...

...Seeking ongoing immigration reform that would allocate more visas to the undocumented Irish, a group organized under the name the Irish Immigration Reform Movement. Using the motto “legalize the Irish” they publicized the plight of the New Irish, built popular support, and worked with policymakers...

... immigration reform at all. Bush George W enforcement Immigration Act of 1990 immigration reform comprehensive lottery green card Obama Barack restrictionists applications duplicate assimilation demographic change DHS Department of Homeland Security duplicate entries entrepreneurship fraud...

...The Conclusion is a brief analysis of how the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) both conceded to and fragmented the Chicano/Mexicano immigrant rights mobilizations facilitated in part by the CCR. Signed by a Republican, it was the first mass amnesty act revealing the influence...

...On April 20, 2006, Latinos in North Carolina joined thousands of people in an organized march to show support for comprehensive immigration reform being considered in Congress. When federal immigration reform failed at the end of 2006, the public was left with the realization that the U.S...

... collected left indelible marks on how the program is remembered. The retelling of bracero history also reveals contemporary concerns with the role that Mexican agricultural workers play in American society and sheds light on the national dilemma of immigration reform, which has been unable to address...

...-restrictionists could find common ground when it came to immigration reform were family reunification and skill-based immigration, which opened up opportunities for some immigrants but heavily penalized others thus contributing to create the uneven and unfair immigration system still in existence today. anti...

...Chapter 2 offers an account of how Italian and Jewish immigration reform advocates, sensing the inevitability of further restriction, pragmatically decided to work with legislators in the early 1920s to mitigate some of the more punitive features of the national origins quota system. When...

...Chapter 3 examines how Italian and Jewish immigration reform advocates adjusted to the new restrictive immigration regime that followed the passage of the 1924 act and how they worked to build political clout to push for reform under the aegis of Roosevelt’s New Deal. During this period, family...

...Chapter 5 shows that, after the debacle of 1952, Italian and Jewish reformers, along with other advocacy groups, pragmatically focused on pushing for ad hoc legislation and piecemeal immigration reform to undermine the very premise of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. Contrary to what the sponsors...

...Chapter 4 chronicles how Italian and Jewish immigration reform advocates appealed to internationalism, humanitarianism, and civil rights rhetoric to fight for refugee legislation first and comprehensive immigration reform later. Unlike World War I, World War II represented an opportunity for reform...

...Undocumented Irish immigrants sought to address their plight through legislative action. In the midst of a broader debate about immigration reform and “illegal” immigration, policymakers helped allocate a small number of visas so that the United States could admit “independent immigrants”—those...

...Alejandra Díaz de León explores the relationship between violence and border enforcement against illegal immigration. In the years before the US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, it was relatively easy for Mexican and central American migrants to cross into the United States...