Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our...

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	Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores Michelle Malkin Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004 - 332 pages average customer review:based on 129 reviews view larger image
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A "Current Events" book that is now a little outdated...

I read this book in the hopes of learning about the many holes in the US immigration system and what needs to be done to patch them. I personally have gone through the US immigration system. After reading this work, one could say that there is certainly no doubt that there is a lot work that needs to be done in regards to state and federal governments and the USCIS (previously INS). Many of the issues Michelle brings up are fairly well-known nowadays and some have even been patched up.

Having said that, I have to take issue with Michelle's harsh tone throughout the book-- she is definitely taking this debate personally and it gets distracting at times. The whole work is basically a shallow glazing over of a couple hundred different problems with the US immigration and enforcement system. Unfortunately, there is little depth in this work and I was left with a lot of unanswered questions. I was discouraged to read Michelle's treatment of the 245(i) issue-- it seems that she doesn't have a full understanding of that program (she doesn't seem to know that one can't adjust status on 245(i) unless they have been properly inspected by an immigration officer upon entry and done something after that to become deportable; so that would disclude border-jumpers and those who entered the US illegally).

For someone who already knows that the US immigration system is in bad shape and has many faults (or someone who has been through it), this work was a little discouraging. For someone who knows nothing about the US immigration system or thinks that it's just another government department, this work will shock them. There are other works that I've read that have much more depth, are more level-headed, and come to similar conclusions on this topic. I would recommend that readers seek out those books, rather than these type of "personal-attack" books.

Finally, while it is true that Michelle was born from immigrant parents, it should be noted that she was born in the US and lived her life in the US like any other average US citizen. She can't speak from personal experience with the USCIS. I took a little offense at her initial statement that, because of this, she (and she alone) is the new face of the immigration debate. I would be interested in reading a book of this nature written by a true legal immigrant.

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Xenophobia and Hypocracy = Michelle Malkin

This sad diatribe confuses administrative errors and policy gaffs with the immigrant population these processes are meant to serve. By equating immigration as a disease (reminding Americans with even a cursory knowledge of history of the "red menace" phenomenon), Malkin is unable to escape the same sort of cyclical immigrant bashing that has been too common throughout the twentieth century.

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