How 9/11 Transformed American Immigration
The spark of Edward Alden’s book, The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security since 9/11, came from an L.A. story. Nearly six years ago, when Alden, now a Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, was still a journalist, he got a call from a Los Angeles-based immigration attorney about the travails of a young Pakistani doctor. He repeated it to a Zócalo audience at the Los Angeles Central Library: The doctor had won a permanent post at UCLA Medical Center, specializing in …
