Summary Of 'Guarding The Golden Door' By Brian John Murphy

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In “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America/Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882/Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis” by Brian John Murphy. Murphy reviews the American constitutional identity and the impacts it does to our society. “We can see that what it mean to be an American has never been fixed or static or impervious to outsider; we are continually creating and re-creating our traditions. In fact, American society is so successful at gathering in those who would join in it, that it is the international model of a free and progressively integrated nation”(Murphy). Immigration brings great benefits to the United States. Immigrants and their hard