"Updated with a new foreword"--Cover.

1. Proud to be an American -- 2. Probing the panic -- 3. The threat to America's traditional identity -- 4. The new Hispanic America, from sea to shining sea -- 5. Will Hispanic Americans be like French Quebec? -- 6. Importing terror -- 7. Immigrants and disease -- 8. Immigrants and crime -- 9. Hispanic gangs -- 10. Do Hispanics and other immigrants steal our jobs? -- 11. Saint Cesar and the immigrants -- 12. Anchor babies -- 13. Immigrants and the church -- 14. Heroes and deportees -- 15. The other side history -- 16. The threat of the two-party system -- Conclusion : An emancipation proclamation for the new century.

Journalist Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S., fueled partly by what may be the single most divisive issue in America today: illegal immigration. With objective clarity and personal conviction, Rivera sheds light on an issue that is muddled with confusion and prejudice--and too often blamed for everything from terrorism to welfare. Examining the past--his own parents' struggle to be "real" Americans, as well as the plight of other ethnic groups in their quest for that dream--Rivera places the issue of illegal immigration in a historic context, dispelling the myth that we are facing an unprecedented crisis.--From publisher description.