Warner Judith Ann. (Editor). Battleground: Immigration

2009. (2 Volume Set). An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. ISBN : 978–0–313–34413–8 (set : alk. paper)—ISBN : 978–0–313–34415–2 (vol. 1 : alk. paper)—ISBN : 978–0–313–34417–6 (vol. 2 : alk. paper). (1026 pages).
Subject:
United States—Emigration and immigration—Encyclopedias.Walking down the streets of the nation’s largest cities is visually stimulating. You may see people wearing ethnic clothing, such as a Sikh wearing a turban, or listen to people speaking many languages. New York City is at the cutting edge of new immigration and has one of the nation’s largest new immigrant populations, which includes enclaves that range from Mexican New York to Chinatown. While New York celebrates its diversity, it is simultaneously a center of the global economy and the site of the former World Trade Center, which was destroyed on September 11, 2001, in part because it was a symbol of American power. September 11 is the tragedy that marks the first defining moment for the United States in the twenty first century, just as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a defining moment for the United States in the mid-twentieth century. We will never be the same.
In referring to the entries in Battleground: Immigration, the author encourages you to
view them all as social conflicts, some of which have led to actual wars. Since September 11, the battlegrounds that engage the issue of the new immigration have been changed by the War on Terror. Although there have been no new attacks in the United States, there is a ferocity and a desperation in the debate about immigration that has divided a nation. Some of the debates, such as whether undocumented people who are established residents should be given a path to legalization, have been a source of dispute since the late twentieth century. Another debate surrounds the displaced populations of potential refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq, who are waiting in camps to see if other nations will accept them as immigrants., In addition, asylum seekers from these war zones and many other nations travel on their own and present themselves at a U.S. port of entry, where they must establish a credible fear of persecution to be given entry on humanitarian grounds.