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Nolo
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English
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"Green cards, visas, and more: What every immigrant needs to know. Want to live, work, or travel in the United States? U.S. Immigration Made Easy has helped tens of thousands of people get a visa, green card, or other immigration status. You'll learn: whether you and your family qualify for a short-term visa, permanent U.S. residence, or protection from deportation; how to obtain, fill out, and submit the necessary forms and documents; insider strategies...
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Since America's earliest days, people have come from all over the world to live here, but it isn't easy. Their right to enter the country has been challenged many times, and it is still challenged today. From the early Europeans to modern-day immigrants and refugees, people have fought to enter the United States, and the Constitution has changed over time to meet their needs. It has also challenged them. The argument continues today about immigrants...
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2019.
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English
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NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"An extraordinary book, I can't recommend it highly enough." –Whoopi Goldberg, The View
By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors"...
"An extraordinary book, I can't recommend it highly enough." –Whoopi Goldberg, The View
By the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—the powerful, definitive, and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America close the immigration door to "inferiors"...
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Candlewick Press
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With refreshing candor, photos and interviews usher us into the lives of eleven undocumented young people bravely speaking out.
"Maybe next time they hear someone railing about how terrible immigrants are, they'll think about me. I'm a real person."
Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana,
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A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights-the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America today: immigration.
They are called the DREAMers: young people who were brought, or sent, to the United States as children and who have lived for years...
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LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Español
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"Todo lo que necesita saber para obtener su tarjeta verde! Si bien los Estados Unidos es un país de inmigrantes, obtener una tarjeta verde puede ser un reto burocrático, especialmente si no tiene información clara y actualizada que lo guíe en el proceso. Pero ahora sí la tiene, con Lo último en guías para obtener su tarjeta verde. Esta guía valiosa está repleta de información práctica de expertos." --
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The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia.
In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel...
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New Press
Pub. Date
c2019
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English
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A powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author Argues compellingly that immigrant advocates shouldnt content themselves with debates about how many thousands of immigrants to lock up, or other minor tweaks. Gus Bova, Texas Observer For most of Americas history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the...
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A "moving...dramatic" (David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl), and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo.
On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding...
On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken by a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding...
20) Tony Driver
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BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2021.
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Italiano
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One day, Pasquale decides to change his name to Tony. In the mid-60s, at the age of nine, he crossed the ocean from Italy to the United States and grew up as a real American, hot dogs and rockabilly included. Now a taxi driver in Yuma, Arizona, he's arrested because of his side hustle: smuggling illegal immigrants across the Mexican border into the USA. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in...
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