At the outset of the twenty-first century, United States immigration policy has become one of the most pressing issues of our time. In recent years, we have witnessed, among other things, calls for dramatically restricting immigration in light of an alleged threat to American national identity,...

In this essay (Symposium on Immigration Law – Immigrants, Vigilantes, and Immigration Reform: Civil Rights in the 21st Century, SMU Dedman School of Law, 2007), the author seeks to critically examine an important aspect of immigration policy. Recent events, including scholarly analysis and...