Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

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309 Index abortion, 3, 11 Abraham, Spencer, 42, 44, 91, 118, 135, 266n25, 275n30; chain migration and, 95 Abu Sayaf, 55 abuse, 50, 217, 224, 249, 283n27; welfare , 20, 88, 143, 207 adoption-assistance programs, 50 AEDPA. See Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act affidavit of support, 86, 92–93, 263n8, 264n13, 266n31 affirmative action, 11, 37, 101, 189, 268n40, 281n16 AFL-CIO, 60 Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolphe, 26, 255n6 Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits , and Security Act (2003), 63 agriculture, 32, 104, 143, 149; cheap labor and, 145; labor shortage in, 146, 277n41, 277n43 Albert, Larry, 224 Aleinikoff, T. Alexander, 135 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building: bombing of, 54, 131 Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), 255n4 Alien Nation (Brimelow), 96 Alqazzaz, Iyad, 218 Alsreafi, Mohammed, 195, 217, 218, 219, 220 Alverson, Susie, 224 American Civil Liberties Union, 229 American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act (2000), 61 American Dilemma, An (Myrdal), 20, 212 American Immigration Control Foundation (ACIF), 65 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), 41–42 Americanization, 97, 100 American Legion: Dole at, 169, 170 American Psychiatric Association, 22 Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), 68 amnesty, 10, 36, 60, 62, 167, 247, 284n3; undocumented immigrants and, 64, 161, 201, 204, 207, 257n19 Andrews, Robert, 272n14 anticitizens, 15, 56, 68, 111, 115, 136, 176, 202, 229, 245, 248–49, 270n4; illegal aliens as, 17, 203, 243; undocumented immigrants as, 178, 241 Anti–Drug Abuse Act (1988), 58 anti-immigrant climate, 151, 185, 186– 87, 282n20 anti-immigrant discourse, 18, 60, 115, 152, 154, 155, 175, 183, 188, 208, 226– 27, 242; illegal aliens and, 15 antiterrorism, 8, 16, 18, 132, 134, 135, 139, 236, 237, 261n49; legislation, 37, 54–60, 245 310 · INDEX Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) (1996), 38, 57, 69, 70, 253n1, 261n51; discretionary relief and, 60; immigration/ immigrants and, 55; passage of, 58, 59–60, 245; sponsors of, 260n42 anxieties, 26, 152, 208, 225; antiimmigrant , 241, 242; cultural, 225, 233; gender, 16, 20; racial, 3, 16, 27, 96, 97, 187, 189, 192, 199, 220, 250; sexual, 16, 20, 123; terrorism, 139, 236 Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language, The (Foucault), 8, 74, 108, 134 Arizona SB 1070. See Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act Ashcroft, John, 61, 62 Asian American Alliance, 192 Asian American rights groups, 42, 192 Asian Americans, 263n5; hostile remarks toward, 189–90; stereotypes of, 190–91 Asian immigrants, 159, 193, 263n5; assault on, 26; attitudes on, 32; attracting, 101; desirability of, 167; portrayal of, 30, 190, 198; preference categories and, 103 Asian-Pacific American organizations, 258n25 assimilation, 2, 97–98, 100, 118, 168, 171, 206; cultural, 212; immigrants and, 1; refusing, 3 asylum, 23, 57, 157, 161 asylum seekers, 41, 91, 160; descriptions of, 157–58; gay/lesbian, 22, 23 Avendo, Carolina, 231 Aviv, Diana, 269n47 Bach, Robert L., 144, 276n38 Barr, Bob, 133, 274n23 Barr Amendment, 133, 274n23, 274n24 Barrett, Thomas M., 147, 148, 278n47 Bates, Jeffrey, 187 Becerra, Xavier, 95, 124–25, 269n46, 278n46 Beck, Roy, 254n6, 284n2 behavior: codes, 230; day laborer, 231; immigrant, 101, 230; policing, 230; sexual/reproductive, 225; social, 11–12 Beilenson, Anthony C., 127, 272n16, 276n35, 276n36 Benmayor, Rina, 101 Berman, Howard L., 36, 105, 147, 258n30, 259n30 Biden, Joseph R., 131, 138 Bilbray, Brian, 104, 116, 130–31, 273n22 bilingual education, 154, 165, 171, 182, 246, 281n15, 281n16; ending, 168, 169, 172, 267n37, 280n12; opposition to, 170, 172; support for, 173– 74; welfare and, 172, 173 biology, 20, 76, 171 birth rates, 123, 163, 272n11 births out-of-wedlock, 213, 214, 216 Boggs, Clara Alicia, 223 Bonilla, Henry, 61 Bono, Sonny, 144, 276n38 booty-strapping, 122–23 border control, 39, 62, 66, 150, 161 Border Patriots, 193 border patrol, 64, 236, 276n35 Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (2005), 64, 65, 243 Borjas, George, 179, 282n22, 284n2 Boutilier v. INS (1967), 256n13 Boxer Amendment, 50 Bracero Program, 32 Bradley, Bill, 133 Brandon, Joseph, 227 INDEX · 311 Breall, Susan, 218, 219, 285n9 Briggs, Vernon, 269n44 Brimelow, Peter, 96, 97, 284n2 Brown, Hank, 260n42 Brown, Sherrod, 272n14 Brown, Wendy, 15 Brownback, Sam, 258n30, 259n30 Brown Tide Rising (Santa Ana), 152 Bryant, Ed, 124–25, 144 Bryant, John, 36, 94, 268n39, 269n48, 272n12, 277n40 Buchanan, Patrick J., 282n25, 285n12 Buff, Rachel Ida, 240 Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 240 Burrows, Lourdes, 173, 281n17 Bush, George H. W., 11 Bush, George W., 61, 62, 64, 160; immigration...