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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154719503321

Autore

Kang S. Deborah <1970->

Titolo

The INS on the line : making immigration law on the US-Mexico border, 1917-1954 / / S. Deborah Kang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-065524-0

0-19-065525-9

0-19-065523-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

HIS025000HIS036060LAW060000

Disciplina

363.2850973

Soggetti

Border security - Mexican-American Border Region

Immigration enforcement - Mexican-American Border Region

Mexicans - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Border security - Government policy - United States

Emigration and immigration law - United States

Mexican-American Border Region Emigration and immigration

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Sectional Immigration Policy -- 2 The Battle for the Border -- 3 Repatriation and Reform -- 4 An Agency in Crisis -- 5 Making the Local National -- 6 The Federal Regulation of the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

'The INS on the Line' offers a comprehensive history of the INS in the southwestern borderlands, tracing the ways in which local immigration officials both made and enforced the nation's immigration laws.