Otis Graham

Excerpts from Unguarded Gates - A History of America's Immigration Crisis
by Otis L. Graham, Jr.

Unguarded Gates - A History of America's Immigration Crisis by Otis L. Graham, Jr., Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, ISBN 0-7425-2228-8.

Table of Contents

PART I - IMMIGRATION ISSUES FROM THE FOUNDERS TO THE CREATION OF A SYSTEM OF LIMITATION

1   Nation of the Native Born Unready for the Great Wave
2   Immigration Reform: Beginnings of National Policy
3   Great Wave and the Search for National Policy
4   Labeling of Reformers
5   In Search of National Immigration Policy
6   Reform Comes: New System for Choosing and Limiting America's Immigrants

PART 11 - BENEFITS AND EROSION OF THE NATIONAL ORIGINS SYSTEM

7   Immigration Restriction: Results and Reflections
8   Reform of the Reform? Gate-Widening Counterattack Quietly Begins
9   Forties and Fifties: Regulated Immigration: Popular, and under Global Pressure

PART III - SECOND GREAT WAVE AND THE RETURN OF MASS IMMIGRATION

10   Immigration Reform Again: Road to the 1965 Immigration Act
11   Mass Immigration Builds Momentum: Refugees Unlimited
12   Illegal Immigration: "Peaceful Invasion'' and Policy Ineptitude
13   Case for Restriction: Economics
14   Case for Restriction: Concerns over National Cohesion
15   Case for Restriction: Immigration's Population-Environment Connection

PART IV - STRANGE POLITICS OF POROUS BORDERS: PRESENT AND FUTURE

16   Politics of Immigration-The 1990s
17   September 11 - A Turning Point?
18   Our Mass Immigration Era: How Can This Be?
19   Dogmas of the Past

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