Battle to Stay in America

Michael Kagan is the director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, which defends children and families fighting deportation in Las Vegas and is Joyce Mack Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written for The Washington Post, Salon.com, and The Daily Beast and is a leading national scholar of immigration and refugee law.

• Preface: A Note About Word ChoiceIntroduction 1Part I: The Targets1 The Graveyards of Nevada 112 Plan B 253 The Cleaners 43Part II: The Attack4 The Unaccompanied 615 Two Arrests 796 Psychological Warfare 92Part III: The Defense7 How to Talk to Your Neighbors About Immigration 1118 The Strip Mall Resistance 1299 Dirty Immigration Lawyers 14610 The Coming Battle 160Acknowledgments 169Glossary 171Notes 175Bibliography 187Index 000About the Author 197

Reviewed by the New York Review of Books:The destructive impact of this enforcement regime on day-to-day life in immigrant communities is described with refreshing clarity and heart by Michael Kagan in The Battle to Stay in America. Kagan, a law professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, tells stories of his neighbors and of clients at the university law clinic he runs. He provides an unusually accessible primer on immigration law and a valuable guide to the ways it currently works to perpetuate an excluded immigrant underclass with diminished rights."