TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Kevin R.
TI  - Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws 
T2  - Critical America
SN  - 9780814742860
AV  - KF4819 .J644 2007 
U1  - 342.73082 
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Emigration and immigration law
KW  - United States
KW  - Illegal immigration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Noncitizens
KW  - LAW / Emigration & Immigration
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Floodgates
KW  - Opening
KW  - border
KW  - case
KW  - construct
KW  - country
KW  - eliminating
KW  - impedes
KW  - into
KW  - legal
KW  - makes
KW  - movement
KW  - people
KW  - that
KW  - this
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people into this country.Open migration policies deserve fuller analysis, as evidenced by President Barack Obama's pledge to make immigration reform a priority. Kevin R. Johnson offers an alternative vision of how U.S. borders might be reconfigured, grounded in moral, economic, and policy arguments for open borders. Importantly, liberalizing migration through an open borders policy would recognize that the enforcement of closed borders cannot stifle the strong, perhaps irresistible, economic, social, and political pressures that fuel international migration.Controversially, Johnson suggests that open borders are entirely consistent with efforts to prevent terrorism that have dominated immigration enforcement since the events of September 11, 2001. More liberal migration, he suggests, would allow for full attention to be paid to the true dangers to public safety and national security
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