Backlash: Anti-Immigrant Groups Threaten Gains in Immigrant Rights

Author: 
Devin Burghart, David Ostendorf, and Eric Ward
Periodical: 
New Americans, Volume 4, Issue 2
Year: 
2005
Publisher: 
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Description: 

Forty years after the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965, which sought to rectify the nation's history of racism and discrimination in immigration policy, the restorative nature of the act and its civil-rights base are threatened by a growing anti-immigrant movement and the mounting stack of proposed anti-immigrant legislation.

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