WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY (INCLUDING REFUGEES) WHO IS NOT LIKE US

Carl J. Bon Tempo, Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War (Princeton: Princeton & Oxford: Princeton . Press, 2008) ("Two contentions stand at the center of this book. First, refugee policies, laws, and programs in the post-World War II era were the product of interactions between foreign policy imperatives and domestic political and cultural considerations. As a result, refugee affairs clearly demonstrate that the United States' domestic and international histories should not--and indeed cannot--be disaggregated. Second, the story of refugee affairs cannot be found just in the policy and political battles that produced refugee program and laws, but must be located as well in the implementation and administration of those programs and laws." Id at 3.).