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Notes Acknowledgments 1. Thomas More, Utopia Book 1 (1516), available at http://www.quotationspage. com/quote/33910.html. Introduction 1. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 12 million undocumented immigrants resided in the United States in 2007, but the number declined in 2008, in part because of the slowdown in U.S. economic growth. About 57 percent of the undocumented population is from Mexico: see Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn, Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow (Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center, 2008). 2. Dahleen Glanton and Tribune National Correspondent, For Immigrants, Raid Dims Hope for a Better Life, Chicago Tribune, December 11, 2006. 3. Id. 4. Id. 5. Russ Bynum, Immigration Raid Cripples Georgia Town, Associated Press, September 15, 2006. 6. SPLC Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Immigration Raids That Terrorized Latino Residents of Southeast Georgia Towns, P.R. Newswire, Public Interest Services, November 1, 2006. 7. Id.; Patrick Jonsson, Crackdown on Immigrants Empties a Town and Hardens Views, Christian Science Monitor, October 3, 2006. 8. Russ Bynum, Immigration Raids Leave Georgia Town Bereft, Stunned, Seattle Times, September 16, 2006. 188 Notes to the Introduction 9. Immigration Raid Still Hurting Pork Producer, Associated Press, December 28, 2006 (quoting Brad Freking, owner and managing partner of New Fashion Pork). 10. See Lydia Saad, Most Americans Favor Giving Illegal Immigrants a Chance, Gallup News Service, 2007 (a Gallup Poll in April 2007 found that more than 80 percent of Americans favor a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants). The article discusses polling data: “A USA Today/Gallup poll conducted April 13–15, 2007, finds the American public in broad agreement with Bush’s desire to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Forty-two percent of Americans say their preferred approach to dealing with illegal immigrants is to require them to leave the United States but then allow them to return and become U.S. citizens if they meet certain requirements . Another 36% would prefer a more liberal system that allows illegal immigrants to remain in the United States while they work toward meeting requirements needed to gain citizenship.” 11. Letter from Edward Tuffy II, president, Local 2544, National Border Patrol Council, to the Hon. Jon Kyl, U.S. Senator, May 24, 2007, available at http://www. nbpc2554.0rg/docs/kyl_letter_amnesty.pdf. 12. Tom Tancredo, Join Tom’s Army against Amnesty and Together Let’s Defeat Amnesty and Amnesty Politicians, press release, available at http://web.archive.org/ web/20070710151006/http://www.teamtancredo.com/save_america_index.asp. 13. 153 Congressional Record S8641–07, June 28, 2007, at S8645 (statement of Senator Corker). 14. Pamela Constable, “No Amnesty” Is Cry at D.C. Immigration Protest, Washington Post, April 23, 2007, at B1. 15. Nathan Thornburgh, The Case for Amnesty, Time, June 18, 2007, at 38. 16. Barbara Ehrenreich, What America Owes Its “Illegals,” Nation, June 13, 2007. 17. Bill Ong Hing, Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality and Immigration Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Bill Ong Hing, To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York: New York University Press, 1997). 18. Cliff Olin, Masses of Immigrants Demand Amnesty, Los Angeles Independent Media Center, April 9, 2007. 19. Mike Allen, Bush Proposes Legal Status for Immigrant Labor: Workers Could Stay Six Years or More, Washington Post, January 8, 2004, at A1. Chapter 1 1. Kevin R. Johnson, Free Trade and Closed Borders: NAFTA and Mexican Immigration to the United States, 27 UC Davis Law Review 937, 940–42 (1994). 2. Id. at 59–60 (citing Congressman Robert Matsui, a key NAFTA supporter in the House of Representatives). 3. Bill Ong Hing, Defining America through Immigration Policy 188–190 (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2004). 4. Bill Ong Hing, Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality and Immigration Policy 12–13 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). The low wage labor sector is not the only migration from Mexico that has accelerated since the country initiated new economic reforms. Business visas for Mexicans have tripled to about 438,000 Notes to Chapter 1 189 annually, while the number of intra-company transferees (for corporate executives and key managers) and investors also has grown dramatically. The number of Mexican tourists has increased by six times (to over 3.6 million each year), while the number of foreign students doubled. Douglas S. Massey, Backfire at the Border: Why Enforcement without Legalization Cannot Stop Illegal Immigration, Trade Policy Analysis no. 9, Cato Institute, June 13, 2005, at 3. 5. Massey writes...

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