ABSTRACT
Considering that both sovereign controls and free market ideologies germinate in spaces that are inhospitable to democracy, there is no better place for experimenting with privatizing federal policy than immigration, a policy area that historically has been isolated from America’s commitment to the rule of law. Immigration policy has been one of this country’s most racist and least democratic areas of federal policy. It is also one of the few public policy areas in which stakeholders (foreigners) have no voice in the political or policy process. With such conditions in tow, 9/11 presented a “perfect storm” situation for immigration control. Hopefully, this book has provided some new insight into the extra-constitutional and unconstitutional practices of governance that can be generated under such unusual conditions.
