{"product_id":"the-battle-to-stay-in-michael-kagan-9781647792459","title":"The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line","description":"\u003cb\u003e2020 Foreword INDIE awards winner \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Day-to-day life in immigrant communities is described with refreshing clarity and heart... an unusually accessible primer on immigration law and a valuable guide to the ways it currently works to perpetuate an excluded immigrant underclass with diminished rights.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The national debate over American immigration policy has obsessed politicians and disrupted the lives of millions of people for decades. \u003ci\u003eThe Battle to Stay in America\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on Las Vegas, Nevada-a city where more than one in five residents was born in a foreign country, and where the community is struggling to defend itself against the federal government's crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Told through the eyes of an immigration lawyer on the front lines of that battle, this book offers an accessible, intensely personal introduction to a broken legal system. It is also a raw, honest story of exhaustion, perseverance, and solidarity. Michael Kagan describes how current immigration law affects real people's lives and introduces us to some remarkable individuals--immigrants and activists--who grapple with its complications every day. He explains how American immigration law often gives good people no recourse. He shows how under President Trump the complex bureaucracies that administer immigration law have been re-engineered to carry out a relentless but often invisible attack against people and families who are integral to American communities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Kagan tells the stories of people desperate to escape unspeakable violence in their homeland, children separated from their families and trapped in a tangle of administrative regulations, and hardworking long-time residents suddenly ripped from their productive lives when they fall unwittingly into the clutches of the immigration enforcement system. He considers how the crackdown on immigrants negatively impacts the national economy and offers a deeply considered assessment of the future of immigration policy in the United States. Kagan also captures the psychological costs exacted by fear of deportation and by increasingly overt expressions of hatred against immigrants. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647792452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647792459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nevada Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael Kagan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46906882228479,"sku":"9781647792459","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d65d2e06-9d16-4670-a35d-c95722a5f7d3.jpg?v=1748771655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-battle-to-stay-in-michael-kagan-9781647792459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}