Tales of the flood.
Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis, by Otis L. Graham Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield, 264 pp., $26.95) RADICALS loose in America. Unprecedented numbers of immigrants arriving, from countries less and less like those that founded the United States. A flooded labor market, with wages dropping...

Illegal immigrants, health care, and social responsibility.
Illegal immigrants form a large and disputed group in many countries. Indeed, even the name is in dispute. People in this group are referred to as illegal immigrants, illegal aliens, irregular migrants, undocumented workers, or, in French, as sans papiers. Whatever they are called, their existence raises an important...

Imagined identity: immigration, ueberfremdung, and cultural chauvinism in German far-right partisan discourse.
Abstract In recent years, issues of an imagined ethno-cultural identity and revived nationalism have received renewed attention in German partisan public discourse. Initially, this came as a shock to both Germans and non-Germans. Both inside and outside of Germany the rise of right-wing partisan rhetoric has evoked...

IMMIGRATION FEES PUSH DANCERS TO BACK OF LINE.
Nancy Martino lets out a tired sigh when asked about booking dance events for San Francisco Performances' season. As the dance program consultant for the presenter, she has been hard-hit by a recent Immigration and Naturalization Service change. "Already it's a nightmare," she said in July. The...

Making it worse: President Bush has tackled the immigration problem--wrongly.
THE Bush administration has revealed the broad outline of its immigration-reform plan. It has three key components. First, it legalizes the approximately 10 million illegal aliens now present in the U.S. by creating a new type of temporary-worker visa. This visa would have a term of three years and...

Immigration and the economy ...
I APPRECIATE Rick Ufford-Chase's thoughtful reminder that illegal immigration drains the brains, the brawn and the change agents from needy communities, leaving them as hopeless ghost towns ("Dying to get in," Aug. 10). But Ufford-Chase's approach to handling the illegal immigration problem in this country displays the...

Villar wants information drive for illegal OFWs.
Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. yesterday called on foreign affairs and labor officials to launch an intensive information campaign that will encourage illegal overseas Filipino workers in Israel to yield to authorities and avoid arrest and deportation. Villar, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, made the...

The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy.
Patrick J. Buchanan, New York: Little, Brown, 376 pages, $22.95 The ongoing globalization of economic life leaves many Americans nervous and suspicious. According to a Business Week poll taken last fall, 56 percent of Americans believe that expanded trade will destroy more jobs than it creates, and 40 percent...

State governments and foreign policy: the Texas-Mexico border in the 1940s.
Editor's Note: It's not only the federal government that makes and implements foreign policy. Especially as societies and economies become increasingly globalized, other actors, including state and local governments, are becoming ever more involved. Border regions offer particularly abundant examples. This study focuses on the Texas-Mexico border and Mexican...

Technology trumps illegal labor: the AgJOBS amnesty bills would encourage illegal immigration at a time when new, cost-efficient technology is rendering the need for more field hands obsolete.
With the Democratic Party now at the helm of Congress, amnesty legislation for illegal aliens is back with a vengeance. AgJOBS bills--which would provide paths to full U.S. citizenship for illegal aliens working in agriculture--have been reintroduced in both the Senate (S. 237) and the House (H.R. 371). Sponsored...