Reviewed by Carolyn Wong | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 27.3

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*Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy.* By Bill Ong Hing. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii + 220 pp. Notes and index. $29.00 (paper).
In Deporting Our Souls, Bill Ong Hing argues that public debate on immigration policy is morally barren if it does not address the nation's responsibility to integrate into civil society those immigrants who work in the United States. Addressing a broad audience, he asks readers to consider the human costs incurred when many immigrants are not able to forge stable social relationships because of extreme impoverishment and exclusion from membership in the political community. In Hing's analysis, reflexive fear of foreigners is the emotional force buttressing a U.S. immigration policy that became increasingly harsh after September 11, 2001.	1
Yet restrictive trends in immigration policy are not new. The first chapter traces the modern political history of illegal immigration policy, which grew more punitive in each decade after passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The third chapter documents continuing efforts to undermine the family-unification principle that lies at the foundation of the legal immigration system.	. . .

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