By privileging the professionally skilled, the change in u.s Immigration law legally engineered a new stream of highly educated asian immigrants into the united states, thereby elevating the racial status of asian americans from ‘unassimilable to exceptional’ (lee citation 2021). The immigration system operates through the looming threat of the arrest, detention, and removal of immigrants from the united states Indiscriminate immigrant arrests result in family separation. A decade of immigration disobedience has shifted the political demands from a focus on the legalization of immigrants to an overhaul of the existing immigration system. Jennifer lee punctures the myth of model minorities
She finds that asian immigrants tend to be very well educated compared to those from other regions This relative advantage—not unique cultural traits—she argues, are responsible for their relative prosperity. The article identifies several concerns that apply to mainstream immigration court proceedings and asserts that those critiques are amplified in such shadow proceedings.
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