A nationalist critique of local laws purporting to regulate the hiring of undocumented workers.
I. Introduction II. Federal Restrictions on the Employment of Aliens A. Congressional Intent Underlying IRCA's Enactment B. IRCA's Primary Features III. State and Local Enactments: Local Responses to a National Problem IV. Supremacy and its Impact on Local Attempts to Regulate Immigration A. Federal Supremacy over Immigration B. Express...

Enemy invaders! Mexican immigrants and U.S. wars against them.
American stereotypes about poorer Mexican immigrants have historically been biologizing in nature, whether the stereotypes were positive (they are a model minority) or negative (they are shiftless, hyper-sexual, or present-thinking). They have also betrayed racist and sexist norms that further biologize these individuals. In the context of the War...

'Give me the tools': they have them--so use them.
'IF someone else has a better idea, I'd love to have them give it to us." That was John McCain, challenging his fellow Republican presidential candidates in early June to offer an alternative to the amnesty bill he helped craft with Ted Kennedy. Well, here's a better idea: enforce...

Fallen & forgotten: Congress approved the extension of immigration benefits to families of fallen U.S. service members four years ago, but the families say they never received them.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They were two very different families One was from Chandigarh in the northern reaches of India near Kashmir, halfway between the borders of Pakistan and China. The other, from Lagos, the burgeoning former capital of Nigeria on the African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. ...

Legal Entry: UK's Indian lawyers want two-way street.
Byline: Sudeshna Sen LONDON: The British Indian Lawyers Association, representing the interests of Indian lawyers practising in the UK, has jumped into the ongoing debate about opening up India's legal services market to foreign lawyers, objecting to any such move without ensuring reciprocal entry clearances for Indian...

U.S. often has uneasy bond with immigrants.
Byline: The Register-Guard The jobs drew them by the thousands, and they came even after there were laws barring them from citizenship. Once they got here, they found work, but they earned the ire of other workers, angry at the low wages they'd accept. We're...

Gandhigiri works; US to give more Green Cards.
Byline: Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: Whether as a consequence of Gandhigiri by the victims or as a result of strategic afterthought, US authorities on Tuesday reversed their decision to limit permanent residency (Green Card) to high-skilled foreign workers. In bulletins and notifications issued on Tuesday, the...

Good neighbor: President Bush's real record in Latin America.
PRESIDENT BUSH just completed his eighth trip to Latin America, a region whose security and prosperity are crucial to the United States. Americans could benefit from learning more about their 600 million neighbors. Unfortunately, press coverage of the trip produced fewer informative articles than superficial analyses by "instant experts"...

Signs of hope: there are significant signs that an aroused and knowledgeable populace can defeat efforts to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] State and national legislators are beginning to slow down the drive toward the North American Union. They are responding to alarmed American citizens who are increasingly connecting the dots between stagnant incomes, job losses, North American integration, open borders, "free trade," and globalization. ...

Border militarization and migrant suffering: a case of transnational social injury.
Prologue CANDLES GUTTERED IN THE BREEZE. IN THE BACKGROUND, PALE RIBBONS DRAPED the aging adobe walls of El Tiradito, a small folk shrine in Tucson s historic barrio district. As the setting sun painted March storm clouds red and orange, 15 people formed a semicircle facing the...