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"In the long history of entry to the United States, newcomers were commonly “undocumented” but not regarded thereby as criminal. Prior to the influx of Latino immigrants, there was a fluid transition from unauthorized to permitted: from “no papers” to green card to citizen. Today’s emphasis on legal status — what Michael Jones-Correa and Els de Graauw, also in the latest Daedalus, call “the illegality trap” — ignores the normal pattern of immigrant assimilation going back centuries. If the dynamic has changed, it is because of a blatant but unacknowledged prejudice against Latinos — not because today’s immigrants have some unique disregard for American law. If there’s an immigration crisis, it isn’t the immigrants’ fault."
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 20:46:00 +0000

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