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The INS on the Line - Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 (Hardcover)
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The INS on the Line - Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 (Hardcover)
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For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region
was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social,
and environmental obstacles that prevented them from replicating
their achievements on Angel Island and Ellis Island, the most
restrictive immigration stations in the nation. In response to
these challenges, local INS officials resorted to the law,
nullifying, modifying, and creating the nation's immigration laws
and policies for the borderlands. In The INS on the Line, S.
Deborah Kang traces the ways in which the INS on the US-Mexico
border made and remade the nation's immigration laws over the
course of the twentieth century. Through a nuanced examination of
the agency's legal innovations in the Southwest, Kang demonstrates
that the agency defined itself not only as a law enforcement unit
but also as a lawmaking body. In this role, the INS responded to
the interests of local residents, businesses, politicians, and
social organizations on both sides of the US-Mexico border as well
as policymakers in Washington, DC. Given the sheer variety of local
and federal demands, local immigration officials constructed a
complex approach to border control, an approach that closed the
line in the name of nativism and national security, opened it for
the benefit of transnational economic and social concerns, and
redefined it as a vast legal jurisdiction for the policing of
undocumented immigrants. The composite approach to border control
developed by the INS continues to inform the daily operations of
the nation's immigration agencies, American immigration law and
policy, and conceptions of the US-Mexico border today.
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