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• Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts (Washington: Cato Institute, National Immigration Forum, et al., c1995), by Julian Lincoln Simon (PDF at ed.gov)
• Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (2015), by United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)
• A Culture of Cruelty: Abuse and Impunity in Short-Term U.S. Border Patrol Custody (2011), by No More Deaths (Organization) (PDF with commentary at nomoredeaths.org)
• Becoming an American: Immigration and Immigrant Policy (final commission report to Congress; 1997), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Becoming an American: Immigration and Immigrant Policy (1997), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (PDF files at Texas)
• To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Bill Ong Hing (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The American Foreign-Born Workers (New York: Workers Party of America, ca. 1923), by Clarissa S. Ware
  • page images at Pitt
  • reformatted transcription of main text and charts: PDF at marxists.org
• The Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States (pre-publication version), by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)
• Friendly Words to the Foreign Born: Instructions Given to Applicants for Naturalization in Court at Philadelphia (Loyalty Leaflet #1; Philadelphia: Committee on Public Information, 1917), by Joseph Buffington (page images here at Penn)
• National Unity Through Intercultural Education (Education and National Defense series pamphlet #10; Washington: GPO, 1942), by Rachel Davis DuBois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans of Foreign Birth in the War Program for Victory, by Earl Grant Harrison (PDF page images at MSU)
• The Confession of a Hyphenated American, by Edward Alfred Steiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), by Mary Antin, illust. by Joseph Stella
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• The Immigrant Press and its Control (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Robert Ezra Park
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Native-Americanism Detected and Exposed (Boston: Printed for the author, 1845), by Richard Hildreth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Institutions and Their Preservation (New York, c1927), by William W. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States: Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: D. and J. Sadlier, 1861), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The City of Masks (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1918), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by May Wilson Preston
  • illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Making of Americans (first book version 1925; unclear if this edition depends on the 1934 version still under US copyright), by Gertrude Stein (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1994), by Robert P. Swierenga (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• The Immigrants in America Review (full serial archives)

• Know Nothing: A Poem for Natives and Aliens (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854), by Samuel R. Phillips (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Race and America's Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People (New York et al.: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Robert Zecker
  • PDF files with commentary at Bloomsbury Academic
  • PDF at OAPEN
• America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Ronald Fernandez (page images at HathiTrust)

• Administrative Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Laws (full serial archives)
• Legal Immigration: Setting Priorities (report to Congress; 1995), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility (Jordan commission interim report to Congress; 1994), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System (c2010), by Sarah Mehta (HTML at hrw.org)
• Diversity Visa Program: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, June 15, 2005 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diversity Visa Program and its Susceptibility to Fraud and Abuse: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, April 29, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2019), by Charles Piot, contrib. by Kodjo Nicolas Batema (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Immigration: Select Documents and Case Records (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1924), ed. by Edith Abbott (page images ay HathiTrust)
• Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion: Meat vs. Rice; American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism; Which Shall Survive? (1902), by American Federation of Labor
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Shame of a Nation: A Documented Story of Police-State Terror Against Mexican-Americans in the U.S.A. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1954), by Patricia Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The September 11 Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks, by United States Department of Justice (PDF at justice.gov)
• United States: Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience--Questions and Answers, by Kevin F. McCarthy and Georges Vernez (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1980), by Clarence Elmer Glick (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• "Pennsylvania Dutch" and Other Essays (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1872), by Phebe Earle Gibbons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by Sasha Costanza-Chock, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Locked Up Far Away: The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the United States (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c2009), by Alison Parker (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), ed. by Samuel Martínez (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Locked Up Far Away: The Transfer of Immigrants to Remote Detention Centers in the United States (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c2009), by Alison Parker (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA (ca. 2008), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)

• The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), ed. by Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone (PDF files at MIT Press)

• From Plotzk to Boston (Boston: W. B. Clarke and Co., 1899), by Mary Antin, contrib. by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Promised Land (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912), by Mary Antin
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images

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