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A RETURN TO MORE BLATANT CLASS AND “RACE” BIAS IN U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 June 2008
Abstract
This essay explores the contradictions posed by states' efforts to exclude immigrants from south of the U.S. border on the grounds that they “burden” the economy, despite the same states' windfall revenue from the taxation of undocumented immigrants. Lawmakers' ongoing anti-immigrant sentiment yields a racialized contradiction in which mostly Mexican and Central American immigrants are derogated as economic burdens. In fact, they are unfairly taxed in addition to being indispensable to the U.S. economy. Based on these and other phenomena, such as racially coded preferences for higher-class immigrants and “antidiversity visas,” I contend that contemporary U.S. immigration policy has regressed toward more blatant class and “race” (albeit racially coded) discrimination.
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- Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2007
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