Immigration Law and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Si Se Puede (Mexican-American Experience) - Softcover

Bernard Trujillo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816527806 ISBN 13: 9780816527809

Publisher: The University of Arizona Press, 2012

Synopsis

Focusing on what for many is at the core of the entire immigration debate in modern America: immigration from Mexico, the authors explore the long history of discrimination against US citizens of Mexican ancestry in the United States and the current movement against ""illegal aliens""—persons depicted as not deserving fair treatment by US law

About this title

Review:

"This is the first book to offer an introduction to immigration law and policy focusing on Mexican migration and Mexican Americans. Johnson is one of our nation's leading authorities on immigration law as well as on issues of race and civil rights."--George A. Martinez, co-editor of A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach

About the Author:

Kevin R. Johnson is Dean of the School of Law and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is also the president of the Board for Legal Services of Northern California. He is the author of The "Huddled Masses" Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights. Bernard Trujillo is a professor of law at Valparaiso University.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0816527806
• ISBN 13: 9780816527809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Kevin R. Johnson