"If the adoption of the Alien Friends Act represented a dramatic short-term political triumph for the Federalist Party…"

"Over the first half of the nineteenth century, even as Americans developed progressively sharper critiques of immigra…"

"In crafting a naturalization law, prudence thus counseled that immigrants undergo a period of probation before being …"

"As part of its commitment to human rights, the United States offers asylum to foreign nation-als who flee to its shor…"

"The history of immigration law and politics in the nineteenth century is, in an important respect, a history of repea…"

"The narrative of immigration as regeneration imagined the republican system itself, as well the economic arrangements…"

"Although the fact that the Constitution vests the authority to enact naturalization laws in Congress suggests that so…"

"Immigrants were legally reconstructed as foreigners only in the final decades of the nineteenth century, as Europeans…"

"Human judgment can never be eliminated from any system of justice. But we believe that the outcome of a refugee’s que…"

"Americans' confidence in assimilation suffered its first significant, though by no means fatal, shock during the wave…"