In her book, “A Nation of Immigrants and Gatekeeping Nation: American Immigration Law and Policy,” Erika Lee argues that the United States has this “deep-rooted ambivalence” toward immigration. She suggests that the ambivalence stems from the America’s seemingly contradictory and flip-flopping nature of immigration policies and such notions are negative. While I agree with her point that the US is ambivalent on immigration, I do not see how that is a massive problem that Lee makes it out to be. I actually think that the US is correct in staying rather apathetic to immigration because it will not be taking more than it can chew while not completely cutting itself off from the rest of the world.
One example of the more “gatekeeping” period of
One example of the more “gatekeeping” period of