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for: Ira De A. Reid, The Negro Movement: His Background, Characteristics, and Social Adjustment, 1899–1937 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), 42; NYT, May 30, 1986.

404 David Roediger’s: David R. Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (New York: Basic Books, 2005).

405 For historian: Jacboson, Roots Too, 204–205.

405 Another group was: Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 37–39, 46; Seelye, Memory’s Nation, 628–629.

405 In the years since: NYT, September 7, 1990.

406 Ellis Island’s iconic status: For a print version of the TD Ameritrade advertisement, see NYT, April 26, 2006, A11.

407 In the 1990s: New Jersey v. New York 523 U.S. 767 (1998); NYT, April 3, 1997, January 13, 1998, May 26, 1998, August 13, 2001; WP, May 27, 1998. 408 To help with fundraising: On the Arrow advertising and fundraising campaign, see http://www.weareellisisland.org. A collection of recent photographs of the abandoned southern section of the island can be found in Stephen Wilkes, Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006).

408 In a different context: NYT, August 31, 2001.

408 Whether Ellis Island: NYT, April 3, 1997; Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, “Remarks at Naturalization Ceremony on Ellis Island with President Bush,” July 10, 2001, http://www.nyc.gov/html/rwg/html/2001b/ellis_island.html.

EPILOGUE

410 “We should not let”: Time, December 15, 1980.

410 Wolf may have believed: NYTM, March 22, 1998.

411 In this most recent: Matt Towery, “Immigration: The Ellis Island Solution,” Townhall.com, May 31, 2007.

412 Unhappy with: Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 189, 225.

413 As Barbara Jordan: “Testimony of Barbara Jordan, Chair, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, Before a Joint U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration,” June 28, 1995. See also, Mark Krikorian, “Immigration and Civil Rights in the Wake of September 11th,” Testimony prepared for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, October 12, 2001, http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/msktestimony1001.html.

414 Much of the discussion: Seyla Benhabib, The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 2, 11.

415 The plenary power: On recent trends in immigration rights and citizenship, see Peter H. Schuck, Citizens, Strangers, and In-Between: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998), 19–87; Linda S. Bosniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 37–76; and Hiroshi Motomura, “Immigration Law After a Century of Plenary Power: Phantom Constitutional Norms and Statutory Interpretation,” Yale Law School, December 1990. Michael Walzer makes a strong case for the retention of some boundaries for national membership in Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1983), 31–63.

415 In a 2001 Supreme Court: Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001). See Trevor Morrison, “The Supreme Court and Immigration Law: A New Commitment to Avoiding Hard Constitutional Questions?” July 31, 2001, http://writ.news. findlaw.com/commentary/20010731_morrison.html.

418 Before the rise: Schuck, Citizens, Strangers, 80; Krikorian, “Immigration and Civil Rights in the Wake of September 11th.”

Index

Abbott, Lyman, 175

Abercrombie, John, 314

Abramowitz, Sara, 59

Adamic, Louis, 397

Adams, Henry, 97, 98

Addams, Jane, 277

Africa, 343

African-Americans, 77, 344, 384–89,

404, 405

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 96–97

Alexander II, Czar of Russia, 66 Alexander III, Czar of Russia, 66 Alien and Sedition Acts, 53, 293 Alien Contract Labor Law, 43, 60–61,

113

alien enemies, 293–94, 295–96, 351–52,

360

Alien Enemies Act (1798), 293, 309 Aliens

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