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GUARDIAN AT THE GATE: IMMIGRATION LAW ON THE STATE, FEDERAL, AND LOCAL LEVELS - Torrie Hester. Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. viii + 243 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4916-3. - Hidetaka Hirota. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the 19th-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xii + 302 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-061921-3. - Julian Lim. Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History), 2017. xv + 302 pp. $32.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-3549-1.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2018

Katherine Unterman*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2018 

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NOTES

1 Peter J. Spiro, “Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional,” New York Times, Dec. 8, 2015.

2 Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 U.S. 581 (1889). On the significance of the Chinese Exclusion Cases, see Chin, Gabriel J., “Chae Chan Ping and Fong Yue Ting: The Origins of Plenary Power” in Immigration Stories, eds. Martin, David A. and Schuck, Peter H. (New York: Foundation Press, 2005), 730Google Scholar.

3 Neuman, Gerald L., “The Lost Century of Immigration Law (1776–1875),” Columbia Law Review 98:8 (1993): 18331901CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Parker, Kunal M., “State, Citizenship, and Territory: The Legal Construction of Immigration in Antebellum Massachusetts,” Law and History Review 19 (2001): 583644CrossRefGoogle Scholar.