Country for All An Immigrant Manifesto

Name: Country for All An Immigrant Manifesto
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ISBN: 9780307475541

ISBN-10: 0307475549

ISBN-13: 9780307475541

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jorge Ramos, Ezra E. Fitz

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In this timely and clear-eyed look at immigration in the United States, award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos shows that reform is desperately neededand long overdue. A Country for Allillustrates how, throughout its history, the United States' ability to turn immigrants into citizens has strengthened its economy and enriched its culture. But today, millions of productive, law-abiding workers, drawn to the U.S. by the inexorable pull of freedom and economic opportunity, are forced to work in the shadows, with no hope for equal rights as American citizens. Meanwhile the US government spends billions in unsuccessful efforts to stem the flow of this tide of immigration. The choice we face, Ramos…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/29/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.00" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Jorge Ramos has won eight Emmy Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Award for excellence in journalism. He has been the anchorman for Univision News for the last twenty-one years and has appeared on NBC's Today , CNN's Talk Back Live , ABC's Nightline , CBS's Early Show , and Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor , among others. He is the bestselling author of No Borders: A Journalist's Search for Home and Dying to Cross . He lives in Florida.Jorge Ramos ha sido el conductor de Noticiero Univision desde 1986. Ha ganado siete premios Emmy y el premio Maria Moors Cabot por excelencia en perio dismo otorgado por la Universidad de Columbia. Ademï¿½s ha sido invitado a varios de los mï¿½s importantes…



Introduction



The Invisibles



A Nation of Equals



Ten Reasons for Immigration Reform



The First Hispanic President of the United States



The Latino Vote 2008



A Manifesto for a New United States of America


Afterword: My Twenty-five Years in the United States


Acknowledgments


Notes