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A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.

The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States a path to legalization of status. Commentators have been quick to observe that any such proposal will face intense opposition. Few issues have so divided the country in recent years as immigration. Immigrants and the Right to Stay brings the debate into the realm of public reason. Political theorist Joseph Carens argues that although states have a right to control their borders, the right to deport those who violate immigration laws is not absolute. With time, immigrants develop a moral claim to stay. Emphasizing the moral importance of social membership, and drawing on principles widely recognized in liberal democracies, Carens calls for a rolling amnesty that gives unauthorized migrants a path to regularize their status once they have been settled for a significant period of time. After Carens makes his case, six experts from across the political spectrum respond. Some protest that he goes too far; others say he does not go far enough in protecting the rights of migrants. Several raise competing moral claims and others help us understand how the immigration problem became so large. Carens agrees that no moral claim is absolute, and that, on any complex public issue, principled debate involves weighing competing concerns. But for him the balance falls clearly on the side of amnesty.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mit Pr (January 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 114 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262014831
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262014830
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.5 x 4.75 x 7.25 inches
Reviewer: Jill A. Boughton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: for all to consider
Review: concise and convincing consideration of the plight of those who came to this country illegally and should be allowed to stay legally

Reviewer: Michael B.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting read
Review: Repetitive argument. Very little is presented on the side of the citizen's right to their own state and members of society. Arguments are primarily in favor on the part of illegal aliens while the arguments in favor of state's right and constitutional obligation to serve local and native-born citizen's tend to be deemed immoral for no concrete evidence. Nonetheless, interesting read.

Reviewer: James L. Park
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Does Duration of Residence in the USA Enhance the Right to Stay?
Review: Joseph H. CarnesImmigrants and the Right to Stay(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010) 114 pages(ISBN: 978-0-262-01483-0; hardcover)(Library of Congress call number: JV6483.C37 2010) Recounting the lives of a few foreign nationals who havebecome constructive, law-abiding residents of the United States,Joseph Carnes argues for allowing foreign nationals to staybased on the length of time they have already lived in the USA.If they are are well-integrated into their local communities,they have a substantial reason to be granted U.S. citizenship."Irregular immigrants" should be offered pathways to citizenshipsimilar to the pathways open to all regular immigrants. In the second half of this short book,six other authors offer their responses to this plan for amnesty. Chapter 2 of Orderly Immigration: Creating a New Americaalso urges a radical change in the established practiceof returning all foreign nationals to their homelands.The title of that chapter is:"End Deportation of Persons Likely to Qualifyfor a Pathway to Citizenship under Immigration Reform". Blanket amnesty will probably not be offered again.So there must be carefully-considered criteria for separatingthose foreign nationals who will be permitted to stay in the USAfrom those citizens of other countriessettled in the United States without authorizationwho will be carefully returned to their homelands. If you would like to see similar reviews,search the Internet for this phrase:"Books on U.S. Immigration Reform".