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The Mexicans are coming!

The immigration charade: Christopher Jencks reviews State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America by Patrick J. Buchanan. The Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are coming! Hyping the immigration crisis in America's whitest states. Going protectionist over a fantasy highway: Xenophobes see a threat to U.S. sovereignty in a Texas freeway project that would ease trade with Mexico. China's example for today's Latinos: How do 19th century Chinese immigrants provide an inspiration to Latinos in the United States? An excerpt from Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, by Jean Pfaelzer (and more and more). Igniting a new kind of desert storm: Is dropping water bottles to migrants humanitarianism or an inherently political act? The introduction to True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism by Noah Pickus. A review of The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror by Stanley Renshon.