Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has described America's immigration policy as the greatest case of national suicide ever seen. Immigration lawyer Donald Dobkin decided to write a book on immigration in the belief that the American public has not been getting the true story about our immigration system. Misconceptions and misinformation rule the day. The U.S. is no longer the only game in town. America's hard line toward immigration has sent applicants fleeing to other countries. India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. have benefited enormously from this flight. We need to get off of our arrogant pedestal. The economic consequences of this policy have been severe. As Dobkin details in these chapters, the U.S. has stumbled its way toward impending disasters: - The economic peril of quasi-closed borders - The myths of purported national security imperatives - The brain-drain: exclusion of foreign best and brightest minds - The rise of the Administrative State: the largest actual branch  of the U.S. government - The strangulation of legal immigration Behind the Green Card is a startlingly frank expose of cynical political interests, economic manipulation and outright racism run amok. Written in common-sense, straightforward style, the book is for readers across the board of interests: politicos, social advocates, policy students and current events readers.