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Book SynopsisThe Battle to Stay in America is the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation. This is the quintessential story of the war on immigrants, as fought and felt on the front lines in the heart of America.
Trade ReviewReviewed by the New York Review of Books:
The destructive impact of this enforcement regime on day-to-day life in immigrant communities is described with refreshing clarity and heart by Michael Kagan in The Battle to Stay in America.
Kagan, a law professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, tells stories of his neighbors and of clients at the university law clinic he runs. He provides an unusually accessible primer on immigration law and a valuable guide to the ways it currently works to perpetuate an excluded immigrant underclass with diminished rights."Table of Contents
- Preface: A Note About Word Choice
- Introduction 1
- Part I: The Targets
- 1 The Graveyards of Nevada 11
- 2 Plan B 25
- 3 The Cleaners 43
- Part II: The Attack
- 4 The Unaccompanied 61
- 5 Two Arrests 79
- 6 Psychological Warfare 92
- Part III: The Defense
- 7 How to Talk to Your Neighbors About Immigration 111
- 8 The Strip Mall Resistance 129
- 9 Dirty Immigration Lawyers 146
- 10 The Coming Battle 160
- Acknowledgments 169
- Glossary 171
- Notes 175
- Bibliography 187
- Index 000
- About the Author 197
