Immigration Nation

In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created to prevent terrorist attacks in the US.This led to dramatic increases in immigration law enforcement - raids, detentions and deportations have increased six-fold. Immigration Nation critically analyses the human rights impact of this tightening of US immigration policy. Golash-Boza reveals that it has had consequences not just for immigrants, but for citizens, families and communities. She shows that even though family reunification is officially a core component of US immigration policy, it has often torn families apart. This is a critical and revealing look at the real life - frequently devastating - impact of immigration policy in a security conscious world. Introduction; Chapter 1 Roots of Immigration to the United States; Chapter 2 The Department of Homeland Security and the Immigration Enforcement Regime of the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 3 Racism and the Consequences of U.S. Immigraton Policy; Chapter 4 The Impossible Choice; Chapter 5 The Immigration Industrial complex; conclusion Conclusion;