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The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of…

- - - - Instead, US tried to enforce existing immigration statues better
      - illegal immigration skyrocketed
        
        "illegal" was used to describe a whole new category of people in a derogatory way; specifically, referencing Mexicans both illegal or Mexican-Americans
      - 1930 census counted Mexicans as a seperate race
- - - - "science revealed to be an unreliable guide to racial exclusion" pg. 84
      - court said color in itself was not a sound indicator of race
      - courts said that scientific explainations of race were not doing it jsutice, and instead ot is the common man's understanding of race that should be used to judge a perosn's race