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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Illegal aliens"”.
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Illegal aliens out! : making sociological sense of the new restrictionist frame
In a 2005 op-ed piece, Wall St. Journal columnist Peggy Noonan queried, "What does it mean that your first act on entering a country is breaking its laws?" Unauthorized noncitizen populations have increased rapidly, from 3 million in 1990 to over 11 million in 2009. In the first decade of the …
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Manpower Impact and Problems of Mexican Illegal Aliens in an Urban Labor Market
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The immigration challenge: the use of U.S. Military Force to control illegal immigration from Mexico
Controlling illegal immigration into the United States has become a major issue in U.S. politics. A February 1997 report released by the INS estimates that there are currently 5 million illegal aliens in the United States. In 1986, when the estimated number of illegal aliens was also 5 million …
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Perception of ethnic distinctiveness by a group of Mexican-Americans : case study in a housing project in East Austin
… their perceptions of Anglo-Americans, Blacks and Illegal Aliens. Using as a background the social sciences literature about the group in question, the points of view of Anglo-American and Mexican-American scholars are contrasted with the points of view of the Mexican-American layman. In addition, …
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Historical Case Study: San Diego and Tijuana Border Region Relationship with the San Diego Police Department, 1957-1994
… along the international border disguised as illegal aliens. These officers worked as team members with agents from the U.S. Border Patrol. The working relationships between these officers and Méxican law enforcement officials were limited. As time went on, the border task force saw different …
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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… countered the negative dehumanizing typecast of "illegal aliens" by identifying DREAMers as exceptional students. During the second phase, from 2007 to 2009, self-representation strategies worked to unite undocumented youth through the creation of national coalitional organizations and through …
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Undocumented Hispanic students and the postsecondary transition: a narrative perspective
<p>Undocumented students transition to college in extremely low numbers due to a high degree of marginalization, inequity in access to higher education, and constitutional confusion regarding federal and state issues of supremacy and inferiority in immigration, tuition, and financial aid policies. …
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From the lucky land to the beautiful country: Illegal immigration of Fujianese to the United States
… body of research, the life of Fujianese illegal immigrants has not been systematically explored. This study confirmed that people smuggling is a phenomenon that combines cultural, economic, and political factors. Furthermore, Fujianese who came to seek an American dream have lost …
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Localizing immigration enforcement: “secure communities,” § 287(g) and Arizona law 1070
<p>“Secure Communities” and the similar 287(g) Program of the Immigration and Nationality Act place the U.S. federal government into enforcement relationships with local and state officials. An effect of these relationships is that states acquire more authority over federal immigration policy. In …
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Documenting dreams: undocumented students in Washington State
<p>"This research explores immigration policies that have provided access to higher education to undocumented students through the lens of sociocultural identity theory and cultural identification theory. These theories are fundamental in understanding the construction of identity for undocumented …
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Experience of Undocumented Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare System
As the number of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. continues to increase, the number of undocumented children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system is also increasing. Currently, there are no federal or state guidelines addressing the immigration status of …