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The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. Immigration Back to Traditional Levels
Stating that current immigration levels damage communities, businesses, and individuals both in their pockets and their pride, a systematic argument cites how changing the immigration policy would benefit all Americans. Tour.
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First published June 1, 1996
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July 14, 2024
A STRONGLY-ARGUED PROPOSAL TO REDUCE LEGAL IMMIGRATION
Roy Beck is also the author of Re-Charting America's Future: Responses to Arguments Against Stabilizing U.S. Population and Limiting Immigration.
He wrote in the Preface to this 1996 book, "The federal government's current immigration program primarily benefits a small minority of wealthy and powerful Americans at the expense of significant segments of the middle class and the poor. Attempts to protect the current level of immigration... distort both history and the practical realities of our own era while diverting attention from immigration's role as a tool against the interests of the broad public. This book primarily addresses that theme... The book is not about illegal immigration... the focus is on LEGAL immigration." He adds as an aside, "One of the major tools in cutting ILLEGAL migration, however, is to reduce LEGAL immigration."
He states that the government's immigration program allows into this country every year several hundred thousand on special work visas; nearly a million legal immigrants; and several hundred thousand illegal immigrants, and they settle disproportionately in the neighborhoods of lower-income African-Americans, "with whom they tend to compete for jobs, education, social services, and housing." (Pg. 27) Later, he describes the pool of international competition to the American worker as "so deep as to come close to the meaning of 'limitless.'" (Pg. 92) Foreign-born workers are often selected by employers over the disabled, as well (pg. 98).
He points out that even farmworkers face threats from immigration, as "no group ever gains security. Each group of foreign workers that supplants an established population is in turn supplanted by a later immigration. Having nearly eliminated black Americans from farm work, federal policymakers now continue an immigration flow that is making life miserable for Latino farmworkers." (Pg. 126-127) He concludes, "No American wage earner benefits from having his or her elected officials import workers who may compete for the same jobs or help to depress wages." (Pg. 245)
This is a strongly-argued, controversial book; but it is also a stimulating and thought-provoking one, that will be of value to anyone interested in the immigration policy matter.
Roy Beck is also the author of Re-Charting America's Future: Responses to Arguments Against Stabilizing U.S. Population and Limiting Immigration.
He wrote in the Preface to this 1996 book, "The federal government's current immigration program primarily benefits a small minority of wealthy and powerful Americans at the expense of significant segments of the middle class and the poor. Attempts to protect the current level of immigration... distort both history and the practical realities of our own era while diverting attention from immigration's role as a tool against the interests of the broad public. This book primarily addresses that theme... The book is not about illegal immigration... the focus is on LEGAL immigration." He adds as an aside, "One of the major tools in cutting ILLEGAL migration, however, is to reduce LEGAL immigration."
He states that the government's immigration program allows into this country every year several hundred thousand on special work visas; nearly a million legal immigrants; and several hundred thousand illegal immigrants, and they settle disproportionately in the neighborhoods of lower-income African-Americans, "with whom they tend to compete for jobs, education, social services, and housing." (Pg. 27) Later, he describes the pool of international competition to the American worker as "so deep as to come close to the meaning of 'limitless.'" (Pg. 92) Foreign-born workers are often selected by employers over the disabled, as well (pg. 98).
He points out that even farmworkers face threats from immigration, as "no group ever gains security. Each group of foreign workers that supplants an established population is in turn supplanted by a later immigration. Having nearly eliminated black Americans from farm work, federal policymakers now continue an immigration flow that is making life miserable for Latino farmworkers." (Pg. 126-127) He concludes, "No American wage earner benefits from having his or her elected officials import workers who may compete for the same jobs or help to depress wages." (Pg. 245)
This is a strongly-argued, controversial book; but it is also a stimulating and thought-provoking one, that will be of value to anyone interested in the immigration policy matter.
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