Assimilation as US Immigration Policy America is a country that has an unspoken immigration policy that is based entirely on race. This policy has been in place since we began racial classifications. In the article by J.L. Hochschild titled “Race Redistricting and the United States Census 1850-1930 Mulatto, Half-Breed, Mixed Parentage, Hindu, and Mexican Race. Studies in American political development. The rearrangement of races was rooted in who is white and who is not white. What we honestly know is that being white carries with it a cache and that has never changed. It's like having a backstage pass to the greatest rock concert ever performed. Everyone you tell wishes they were there. Within this framework it should be established who will be included and who will be excluded. Native Americans had the ability to assimilate, Mexicans would be included in Jim Crow laws, and whether all Asians should be barred from entering the country were questions that whites would determine. (JL Hochschild 1) And these questions would form the basis of each group's position on the American racial totem pole. The focus of Professor Hochschild's article is that the Census Bureau is deeply implicated in the social construction of race, and little has changed in all that time. This view of the power of the census is supported in many ways, and it is the painstaking work of Professor Hochschild, Professor Stephen Steinberg, and the Pew Research Center that will tie it all together. This paper will attempt to clarify what almost all media and government sources have done to divert public attention from a system based almost entirely on which groups merge with the white mainstream.... middle of paper... ..8. Document. March 5, 2014.JL Hochschild, Brenna Powell. Racial redistricting and the United States Census 1850-1930: Mulatto, Half-Breed, Mixed Ancestry, Hindu, and Mexican Race. Studies in American political development. academic. Boston: harvard.edu, 2008.Palmer Stacy, John Vinson. The Great Betrayal: U.S. Immigration Policy 1965-2012. Supplement to the previous report. Monterey: American Immigration Control Foundation, unknown. Doc Steinberg, Stephen. “Neoliberal Immigration Policy and Its Impact on African Americans.” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (2009): 209, 211. academic journal. Taylor, Paul, et al. When labels don't fit: Hispanics and their views on identity. Relationship. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, 2012. Pdf.Word Press and Atahualpa. "This is my convention." March 28, 2014. Irregular hours. Dr. March 28 2014.