Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jon Wiebel
• Susanne Berthier-Foglar
• Paul Otto
• Otto, Paul
• Berthier-Foglar, Susanne

Titel

Realizing Government Ambitions: Policing Insiders and Outsiders

Ist Teil von

• Permeable Borders, 2020, p.117

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United States: Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Not to be outdone by Donald Trump’s pledge to construct an impermeable wall along the entire length of the US-Mexico border, Republican senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue introduced the RAISE (Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment) Act in the United States Senate in August 2017. Supporting the legislation, President Trump asserted that the RAISE Act would, by ensuring that those who entered the United States could financially support themselves, prevent new immigrants from entering the United States and immediately collecting welfare (Trump 2017). Although the RAISE Act failed to make it to the floor of the US Senate, the