The issue of illegal immigration has a long history of triggering intense social, political, and economic arguments in the United States and in many other countries around the world. What are the arguments for and against illegal immigration? What are the arguments for and against how illegal immigrants should be treated?

This question asks readers to critically and thoughtfully engage with the social, cultural, and political contexts in which in which the author and his family came to America, in this book was written, and arguably within which it is read. The book’s personal stories, along with the claims of its author, are clearly both individualized and part of a bigger picture story that is not referenced by the author until the Epilogue, but which is present in both subtext and implication throughout. In other words, the author’s story cannot be divorced from the circumstances...