A multivolume set of legislative history documents for immigration legislation.

Igor I. Kavass and Bernard D. Reams, Immigration and Nationality Acts: Legislative Histories and Related Documents, 2^nd Series. Buffalo: W.S. Hein, 1997 --

   A multivolume set of documents that updates Immigration and Nationality Acts by Trelles and Bailey [see above]. Includes the Hesburgh Commission Report: U.S. Immigration Policy and the National Interest: the Final Report and Recommendations of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy to the Congress and President of the United States, March 1, 1981

Edward P. Hutchinson, Legislative history of American immigration policy 1798-1965. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

   A one-volume narrative which is footnoted but does not contain legislative history documents themselves.

Selected legislative history of the Immigration Act of 1990. Washington, D.C.: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 1991.

   Photocopies of selected documents including the presidential signing statement, conference report, selected committee reports and debate.

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