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Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

Lisa García Bedolla
Lisa García Bedolla
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS. By Lisa Magaña. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 132p. $37.50 cloth, $16.95 paper.

In this book, Lisa Magaña provides a concise and thoughtful analysis of the immigration policy process from inside the bureaucratic agency formerly responsible for its implementation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Using a combination of interviews with high- and low-level INS representatives and immigration advocates, government policy evaluations, immigrant surveys, and intensive field study, Magaña shows the disconnect that often exists between congressional immigration mandates and their actual implementation in INS district offices.

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BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 599 - 600
Copyright
© 2004 American Political Science Association

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