Immigration reform : we can do it, if we apply our founders' true ideals / Godfrey Y. Muwonge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muwonge, Godfrey Y.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 205 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2010]

Summary:

Immigration Reform is an in-depth discussion of immigration reform in America. The author demystifies this polarizing subject by posing questions about the ethical and political quandaries still presented by race and ethnicity after two and a half centuries of American independence. The book highlights commonly held myths about immigration and explains which issues America needs to address in order to achieve comprehensive reform.

The National Chamber Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, picked this book's original edition as one of its top ten "Books that Drive the Debate" for 2009.

Contents:

Part I Foundational Principles

Chapter 1 Immigration Crisis 23

Is Deporting Punishing? 23

Eighteenth Century Reform 25

Of Mining and Deporting 27

Divine Rights 30

Victory; Black Codes; Settlement and Jim Crow 31

Harlan's Plessy Dissent 32

But Williams v. Mississippi? 33

Myth; Mythology; and Historical Fact 34

Jibbing at Immigration Reform 36

Under The Three Branches 37

Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath 37

Chapter 2 Freedom for 21/2 Centuries 43

The First Half-Century 43

Four Score and Seven Years Later 45

Dred Scott's Bio 45

Bred Scott v. Sandford 48

Dissent, Most Respectfully 53

Whence They Come 55

English Glue 57

This Christian Nation 58

Part II Implicit Rights

Chapter 3 Immigrants' Rights 65

Given to Full Faith and Credit 65

1986: A Total Waste! 67

Running the Clock 71

1901-1907 "Counter-Anarchism" Legislative Frenzy 73

Skip the Visa Line; Touch Base 76

Chapter 4 Ethical Concern, Economics and Security 81

The Basics 82

Edicts Opposite Human Nature 84

Investing for More 85

Comprehensive Security 87

Chapter 5 Work-The Human Right 91

"Earlier Immigrants Returned Home"-The Myth 92

Bandongo and Bakongo of Virginia 93

Side-by-Side; in Equality 95

International Treaty Obligations to Asylum-Seekers 96

Third-World Immigration 99

Part III Justice's Minimums

Chapter 6 Neither Fair nor Just 105

The Common Law 106

Marcello v. Bonds 107

Court-Stripping 108

Central to Anglo-American Law 110

Arguing Benslimane v. Gonzales 112

Grinding Bureaucratic Mill 115

Giday v. Gonzales 116

Chapter 7 Adversary System? 121

Divining Congressional Intent 122

Contrary to Statutory Structure 125

Conflicting Motives 127

Chapter 8 Quest for Deportation Quotas 133

To Civil-ize Immigrant Detention 134

The SHU Law Suit 135

A Bivens Suit 138

Ssali v. Gonzales 139

The Taxpayer's Tab 141

Part IV Comprehensive Solutions

Chapter 9 Too High a Cost 147

Niam v. Ashcroft 147

The Blagoev-Kissiovas from Bulgaria 150

The Posner Opinion in Niam 151

Lethal Separation of Powers 154

Niam's Other African Odyssey 156

Chapter 10 Crisis Legislating 161

What Would the Founding Fathers Do? 161

Post-Haste Comes Around 163

The Death of Joseph Dantica 165

ICE Tampers with Victor Arellano's Witnesses 166

Juan Guevara-Lorano Died for $50.00? 167

Sanabria's Due-Process Turnstile 168

Guzman: Missing for Three Months 170

Chapter 11 Toward a Dynamic System 173

Re-empanel the 9/11 Commission 175

Differential Diagnosis 176

Human Plights, in the Meantime 181

A Safety Valve 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780761850069

0761850066

9780761850052

0761850058

9780761850076

0761850074

OCLC:

524806282