The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal

by Mark Krikorian

Book Overview

New research reveals why America can no longer afford mass immigration Mark Krikorian has studied the trends and concluded that America must permanently reduce immigration-- both legal and illegal--or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595230351
• ISBN13: 9781595230355
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Sentinel
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

At last, permission to speak the truth on immigration

One of the things that I like most about this book is that it legitimizes debate not just about illegal immigration but about all immigration. The USA is almost alone in the world in having been a country, in recent decades, where a majority of people had come to accept that any argument to limit legal immigration was morally reprehensible terrain that belonged only to racists. Thus, people concerned -- for a whole host of legitimate reasons -- with American immigration policy felt constrained to insist, hypocritically, that it was only ~illegal~ immigration that concerned them. The fact that large waves of immigration have been good for America in the past does not by any means predict that similar levels of immigration would be beneficial in the future, a matter that Kirkorian examines in great detail. Perhaps now, with this book, we can begin to have an honest, national conversation about immigration policy with the open-borders left less able to intimidate, browbeat, and marginalize any opponents of their agenda.

Enemies R Us

Mark Krikorian has written a noble volume on current immigration problems, one refreshingly free of either mean-spiritedness or political partisanship. His thesis is that a common American civic culture is worth preserving - his opponents, therefore, include many current, confidence-lacking American citizens, chief among them those government, global corporate, academic and media types who are fashionably but mindlessly "post-American." Joining them as well are those numerous, greedy local business and homeowners ever on the lookout for the cheapest labor. To preserve and advance the institutions and freedoms of American society, Krikorian favors reducing the illegal immigrant population over time by encouraging attrition - lack of hiring, for instance, most often leads such persons to return home. Similarly, he favors reducing the legal immigrant population from its current, too high annual rate. In both cases, his motive is not xenophobia, but rather the desire to allow for the traditional assimilation of newcomers into a once again properly valued, common American civic culture. Especially winning in his presentation is the recognition that in the current permissive immigration mess, the principal enemies are us.