Ins on the Line - Making Immigration Law on the Us-Mexico Border, 1917-1954

The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 offers a comprehensive history of the INS in the southwestern borderlands, tracing the ways in which local immigration officials both made and enforced the nation's immigration laws.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• 1 A Sectional Immigration Policy


• 2 The Battle for the Border


• 3 Repatriation and Reform


• 4 An Agency in Crisis


• 5 Making the Local National


• 6 The Federal Regulation of the U.S.-Mexico Border


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

S. Deborah Kang is an Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos.

Summary

The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 offers a comprehensive history of the INS in the southwestern borderlands, tracing the ways in which local immigration officials both made and enforced the nation's immigration laws.

Additional text

The genius of Deborah Kang's The INS on the Line is that it shows in painstaking detail how very little Trump's simplistic fantasy has to do with the actual history of the US-Mexico border. Kang offers us a highly original account of state regulation...of the border between 1917 and 1954. She shows how the US-Mexico border emerged as a complex and extended negotiation between the forces of nativism and the concerns and interests of border communities; between the US and Mexico; between 'law on the books' as established in Washington, DC, and 'law in action' in California, Texas, and Arizona; and among the multiple agendas of legislatures, agencies, courts, border residents, employers, and migrants.

Product details

• Authors: S. Deborah Kang, S. Deborah (Assistant Professor of History Kang, Kang S. Deborah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780190055554
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005555-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LAW / Legal History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples