Straddling the Border : : Immigration Policy and the INS / / Lisa Magaña.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Magaña, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (132 p.)

With the dual and often conflicting responsibilities of deterring illegal immigration and providing services to legal immigrants, the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is a bureaucracy beset with contradictions. Critics fault the agency for failing to stop the entry of undocumented...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One. The Immigration Policy Process a recurring theme
• Chapter Two. Immigration Policies and Their Impact on the INS
• Chapter Three “We Aren’t Sexy Enough” working conditions at the ins
• Chapter Four. The Immigration Reform and Control Act: A case study
• Chapter Five. Social Services: A case study
• Chapter Six. Where Are We in the Immigration Policy Process?
• Appendix One. Immigration Reform and Control Act of November 6, 1986 (100 statutes-at-large 3359)
• Appendix Two. Text of Proposition 187
• Appendix Three. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of August 22, 1996 (110 statutes-at-large 2105)
• Appendix Four. Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of September 30, 1996 (110 statutes-at-large 3009)
• Appendix Five. Policy Summary
• Appendix Six. Protocol Questions
• Appendix Seven. Immigration Laws, 1790–1996
• Notes
• Glossary
• References
• Index