Killing the American Dream: How Anti-Immigration Extremists are Destroying the Nation Book

Foreword Robert Guest vii

Introduction 1

Part I Twenty-Five Years of Immigration Politics

From Ronald Reagan's Amnesty to the Persecution of "Illegals"

1 "I Believe in Amnesty": Ronald Reagan, the 1986 Law, and Unfinished Reform 13

2 California Casts the First Stone 23

3 Nativism: The Old and the New 35

Part II The Radicalization of Anti-Immigrant Laws and Legal Chaos

4 The New Millennium: Bush, Latinos, and 9/11 47

5 Immigration: A Question of National Security 55

6 "Illegals" and the New Hate Movement 69

7 States Take the Law into Their Own Hands 83

8 Hazleton, Pennsylvania: A Community's Demographic Shock 93

9 Arizona, Alabama, and Kobach's Anti-Immigrant Laws 103

10 The Booming Business of Immigrant Detention 119

11 Rejecting Extremism and the Search for Solutions 129

Part III Dreams Have No Visas

12 Immigrant Youth and the Broken Dream 143

13 The Obama Era: A Perfected Deportation Machine 159

14 The Republicans: Stuck on Immigration 181

15 The Economy, Immigrants, and the Future of America 191

16 Is the American Dream Dead? 201

17 Demographic Change Won't Wait 215

Notes 221

Index 233