Immigration

See the controversial topics resource guide for more information on locating resources and evaluating information.

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The following is a list of recent books located in the NHC Library. For help locating these titles, please see a reference librarian on the 3rd floor.

• Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right Michele Wucker
  JV6483 .W83 2006
• What Rights Should Illegal Immigrants Have?
  Lori M. Newman
  KF 4819 .W53 2006
• Immigration and Illegal Aliens: Burden or Blessing
  Information Aids, Inc
  HN59 .I5 I46
• Immigration Policy in the United States: a CBO Paper Unisted States.
  Congressional Budget Office
  Y 10.2: IM6/4 2006
• The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in the Age of Terror
  Stanley Allen Renshon
  JK1759 .R46 2005
• Defending the Borders: the Role of Border and Immigration Control
  Gail Stewart
  HV6432 .S743 2004
• Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints
  Opposing Viewpoints Series
  JV6465 .U6 I46 (2004)
• Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882
  Roger Daniels
  JV6483 .D354 2004
• Defining American through Immigration Policy
  Bill Ong Hing
  JV6483 .H56 2004

Use the library’s article databases to find periodical (magazine, journal, newspaper) articles for your research. Many periodicals cover controversial issues, but the following online databases focus on presenting both sides of numerous issues.

You may also use general interest databases such as Proquest All Databases and Academic Search Complete.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services(USCIS) The USCIS is responsible for the administration of immigration and naturalization adjudication functions and establishing immigration services policies and priorities. These functions include
-adjudication of immigrant visa petitions;
-adjudication of naturalization petitions;
-adjudication of asylum and refugee applications;
-adjudications performed at the service centers, and
-all other adjudications performed by the INS.

Public Agenda Online: Immigration Select "Immigration" from the list of Issue Guides. Provides an overview of the issue; frames the debate; and provides news, facts, and other data. An excellent starting point.

Center for Immigration Studies Provides extensive narrative and links to reports on all issues of immigration.

The Federation For American Immigration Reform is an organization that believes U.S. immigration policy must be changed. See also links to current news stories on immigration

The Foreign-Born Population in the United States: March 2000
NOTE: download Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this file - from the U.S. Census Bureau and published January 2001 provides charts and graphs that detail the characteristics of U.S. population diversity.

Immigration and Naturalization Legislation from the Statistical Yearbook from the Immigration and Naturalization Service traces the history of U.S. immigration legislation from 1790-present.

Immmigration Rights sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union argues that immigration reform violates basic civil liberties principles.

Immigration Statistics from the Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security

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