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Immigration activism in the United States

Jason A. Cade (Georgia): Enforcing Immigration Equity. Citizenship for sale: Eric Posner on how the “immigrant investor” program is unfair, ineffective, and way too cheap. A study finds each new immigrant creates 1.2 new jobs. On being undocumented: TheDream.US scholarship recipients share their stories and thoughts on college. Brizzia Munoz Robles and Maria Munoz Robles on what it's like to be a DREAMer on campus. Yolanda Vazquez (Cincinnati): Constructing Crimmigration: Latino Subordination in a “Post-Racial” World. Matthew Ward (Southern Mississippi): They Say Bad Things Come in Threes: How Economic, Political and Cultural Shifts Facilitated Contemporary Anti-Immigration Activism in the United States. The introduction to White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics by Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan L. Hajnal. Ann Coulter credits white nationalist Peter Brimelow as an “intellectual influence” on her anti-immigrant book Adios America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole. Ben Jacobs and Asawin Suebsaeng on how Republicans fear-mongering over ISIS and Mexico are silent on Canadian border. China and India overtake Mexico for inflow of foreign-born US residents. The first chapter from The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority by Madeline Y. Hsu. William Han: “I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American. I’ve failed”.