"Yen Le Espiritu: [There is] a U.S.-immigration paradox: Although the U.S. has consistently taken a restrictive approach to immigration over the years, with restrictions based mostly on race and gender, the nation has continued to represent itself as the ???land of immigrants.??? ???[The] moniker, as an ideological script, shores up the narrative of the United States as a nation of freedom, rights," . . . .