Tag: John S.W. Park

UCSB scholar’s book delves into the messy history of immigration and the law in the United States

By Jim Logan • UCSB For the United States, the demographic terminator — the line that separates night from day — is the Immigration Act of 1965. Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on Oct. 3 of that year, it eliminated…

Huckleberry Finn figures prominently in new book by UCSB expert in immigration law, policy

SANTA BARBARA — This is the overarching question that frames John S.W. Park’s new book, “Illegal Migrations and the Huckleberry Finn Problem” (Temple University Press, 2013), and it’s a question that has confronted many American citizens time and again throughout…