Otis L. Graham, Jr. is professor of history, emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of over 15 books, including Debating American Immigration, 1882–Present (with Roger Daniels) and Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s to 1990s. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

• IntroductionPart I: Immigration Issues from the Founders to the Creation of a System of LimitationChapter 1: Nation of the Native Born Unready for the Great WaveChapter 2: Immigration Reform: The Beginnings of National PolicyChapter 3: Great Wave and the Search for National PolicyChapter 4: Labeling of ReformersChapter 5: In Search of National Immigration PolicyChapter 6: Reform Comes: New System for Choosing and Limiting America's ImmigrantsPart II: Benefits and Erosion of the National Origins SystemChapter 7: Immigration Restriction: Results and ReflectionsChapter 8: Reform of the Reform? Gate-Widening Counterattack Quietly BeginsChapter 9: Forties and Fifties: Regulated Immigration: Popular, and under Global PressurePart III: Second Great Wave and the Return of Mass ImmigrationChapter 10: Immigration Reform Again: Road to the 1965 Immigration ActChapter 11: Mass Immigration Builds Momentum: Refugees UnlimitedChapter 12: Illegal Immigration: "Peaceful Invasion" and Policy IneptitudeChapter 13: Case for Restriction: EconomicsChapter 14: Case for Restriction: Concerns over National CohesionChapter 15: Case for Restriction: Immigration's Population-Environment ConnectionPart IV: Strange Politics of Porous Borders: Present and FutureChapter 16: Politics of Immigration—The 1990sChapter 17: September 11—A Turning Point?Chapter 18: Our Mass Immigration Era: How Can This Be?Chapter 19: Dogmas of the Past

Otis Graham brings new eyes and new scholarship to the agonizing question of immigration, a subject that usually engenders too much emotion and too little objective analysis. Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis is a clear-eyed look at both the pluses and minuses of our new immigration patterns. Readable and compelling.

Otis L. Graham, Jr. is professor of history, emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of over 15 books, including Debating American Immigration, 1882–Present (with Roger Daniels) and Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s to 1990s. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

• IntroductionPart I: Immigration Issues from the Founders to the Creation of a System of LimitationChapter 1: Nation of the Native Born Unready for the Great WaveChapter 2: Immigration Reform: The Beginnings of National PolicyChapter 3: Great Wave and the Search for National PolicyChapter 4: Labeling of ReformersChapter 5: In Search of National Immigration PolicyChapter 6: Reform Comes: New System for Choosing and Limiting America's ImmigrantsPart II: Benefits and Erosion of the National Origins SystemChapter 7: Immigration Restriction: Results and ReflectionsChapter 8: Reform of the Reform? Gate-Widening Counterattack Quietly BeginsChapter 9: Forties and Fifties: Regulated Immigration: Popular, and under Global PressurePart III: Second Great Wave and the Return of Mass ImmigrationChapter 10: Immigration Reform Again: Road to the 1965 Immigration ActChapter 11: Mass Immigration Builds Momentum: Refugees UnlimitedChapter 12: Illegal Immigration: "Peaceful Invasion" and Policy IneptitudeChapter 13: Case for Restriction: EconomicsChapter 14: Case for Restriction: Concerns over National CohesionChapter 15: Case for Restriction: Immigration's Population-Environment ConnectionPart IV: Strange Politics of Porous Borders: Present and FutureChapter 16: Politics of Immigration—The 1990sChapter 17: September 11—A Turning Point?Chapter 18: Our Mass Immigration Era: How Can This Be?Chapter 19: Dogmas of the Past

Otis Graham brings new eyes and new scholarship to the agonizing question of immigration, a subject that usually engenders too much emotion and too little objective analysis. Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis is a clear-eyed look at both the pluses and minuses of our new immigration patterns. Readable and compelling.

Otis L. Graham, Jr. is professor of history, emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of over 15 books, including Debating American Immigration, 1882–Present (with Roger Daniels) and Environmental Politics and Policy, 1960s to 1990s. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

• IntroductionPart I: Immigration Issues from the Founders to the Creation of a System of LimitationChapter 1: Nation of the Native Born Unready for the Great WaveChapter 2: Immigration Reform: The Beginnings of National PolicyChapter 3: Great Wave and the Search for National PolicyChapter 4: Labeling of ReformersChapter 5: In Search of National Immigration PolicyChapter 6: Reform Comes: New System for Choosing and Limiting America's ImmigrantsPart II: Benefits and Erosion of the National Origins SystemChapter 7: Immigration Restriction: Results and ReflectionsChapter 8: Reform of the Reform? Gate-Widening Counterattack Quietly BeginsChapter 9: Forties and Fifties: Regulated Immigration: Popular, and under Global PressurePart III: Second Great Wave and the Return of Mass ImmigrationChapter 10: Immigration Reform Again: Road to the 1965 Immigration ActChapter 11: Mass Immigration Builds Momentum: Refugees UnlimitedChapter 12: Illegal Immigration: "Peaceful Invasion" and Policy IneptitudeChapter 13: Case for Restriction: EconomicsChapter 14: Case for Restriction: Concerns over National CohesionChapter 15: Case for Restriction: Immigration's Population-Environment ConnectionPart IV: Strange Politics of Porous Borders: Present and FutureChapter 16: Politics of Immigration—The 1990sChapter 17: September 11—A Turning Point?Chapter 18: Our Mass Immigration Era: How Can This Be?Chapter 19: Dogmas of the Past

Otis Graham brings new eyes and new scholarship to the agonizing question of immigration, a subject that usually engenders too much emotion and too little objective analysis. Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis is a clear-eyed look at both the pluses and minuses of our new immigration patterns. Readable and compelling.