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The Accidental History of the U. S. Immigration Courts by
How the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agency--and how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system that has long pre-dated that administration: The immigration courts are not really "courts" but an office of the Department of Justice--the nation's law enforcement agency. Alison Peck's original and surprising account shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, the narrative laid out in this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration court system and the human crises that led to its creation. Moving the reader from understanding to action, Alison Peck offers a lens through which to evaluate contemporary bills and proposals to reform our immigration court system. Peck provides an accessible legal analysis of recent events to make the case for independent immigration courts, proposing that the courts be moved into an independent, Article I court system. As long as the immigration courts remain under the authority of the attorney general, the administration of immigration justice will remain a game of political football--with people's very lives on the line.
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by 
Deported Americans: life after deportation to Mexico by 
Everyday Illegal: when policies undermine immigrant families by 
Immigrant, Inc: why immigrant entrepreneurs are driving the new economy (and how they will save the American worker) by 
Immigrant Experiences: Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here by 
The Line Becomes a River: dispatches from the border by 
The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American by 
Out of Many, One: portraits of America's immigrants by 
This Land Is Their Land: An immigrant's manifesto by 
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by 
White Backlash: immigration, race, and American politics by 
Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Development, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors Act
The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate by Whose Child Am I?: Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody by Potential keywords / topics
Out of Many, One: portraits of America's immigrants by “Immigration: Who Has Access to the American Dream?” Films Media Group, 1997, fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=97865&xtid=7059. Accessed 15 Jan. 2018.
