It is surprising that Sen. Elizabeth Dole has started an anti-immigration campaign as part of her re-election plan after the appearance of the following review on a book by Jason L. Riley, a member of the WSJ's editorial board, in the Wall Street Journal explains many aspects of the immigration debate. Here are a few excerpts:
---A Welcome, Not a Wall
16 May 2008
The Wall Street Journal
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In "Let Them In," Jason L. Riley, a member of The Wall Street
Journal's editorial board, argues the case for open borders, reminding us of the immigrant contribution to America's economy and culture, correcting various myths about legal and illegal immigration, and chiding Republicans for their restrictionist tendencies., .,
...Most immigrants fall into one of two categories: low-skilled laborers or high-skilled professionals. One-third of all immigrants have less than a high school education, and one-quarter hold a bachelor's or advanced degree. Most native workers, by contrast, are concentrated betwixt those two extremes. Hence, immigrant workers tend to act as complements to the native U.S. workforce...
...Immigration policies that limit industry's access to that talent become ever more risky as the marketplace becomes ever more global....
...-- better to let Apple and Google and eBay make their own personnel decisions
without interference from Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs."...
...hostility to immigrants is not a political winner...Unfortunately, it's not a lesson that some conservatives are in danger of learning anytime soon."...
.. illegals who collect a paycheck also pay payroll and Social Security taxes but are denied the attendant benefits, Uncle Sam tends to come out ahead."
..."Mexican immigration was such a nonissue in American politics that it never even came up in the 2004 presidential debates. But by November 2006, Republicans and their conservative allies in talk radio and cable news would turn it into a raucous
national theme... The GOP spent tens of millions of dollars on television ads that portrayed Latino immigrants as dangerous criminals...
...Historically, the best results have come from providing more legal ways for immigrants to enter the country. Most of these people are not predisposed to crime or terrorists in waiting. They are economic migrants who would gladly use the front
door if it were open to them...
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