Read this book while you are still young...

Denied, Detained, and Deported:  The Dark Side of American Immigration

by Ann Bausum (for readers ages 11+)

Kids need to be reading this book, so that when they grow up they won't become Minute Men. This week, DREAMers in Washington DC, there to lobby for the DREAM Act, met a number of anti-immigrant college students. In a heated discussion, those against the DREAM Act could not be convinced it was a good thing for the country. What creates this type of person? Why are they so set on thinking that DREAMers will only take away something from them? Why would they expend so much energy fighting for something that will bring good things to people?

here is a brief review (from Kirkus Reviews) of Ann Baunum's book:

...Contending that "[a]rguments for and against immigration tend to repeat in cycles," the focus is on the implicit warning contained in five stories: the 1882 exclusion of Chinese immigrants, the 1919 deportation of anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, the tragic 1939 refusal of entry for Jewish passengers of the St. Louis, the World War II detention of Japanese-American citizens and exploitation of Mexican migrant workers that began during the same era...