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Do Immigrants Benefit America? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICA |
| Author: Peter Duignan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,941 Words, 19,501 Characters |
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Immigrants will not ruin America in the foreseeable future if we limit their numbers to under 500,000 a year, control the visa system, and better monitor the flow of illegals. But this does not mean we should close our borders, as Pat Buchanan and others want.
Immigration has made and remade this country. Not only do immigrants not ruin America but they have benefited it. The Wall Street Journal calls for high levels of immigration because it means more consumers, more workers, and a larger economy with new blood for the United States. Whereas Europe and Japan have aging populations and face shortages of tax money to care for their elderly, the United States, thanks to immigration, has a growing population and workers to do the jobs Americans don't want to do at low wages. Immigrant lab...
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...ion in the United States, Hoover Press, Stanford, Calif., 1998.
Edward P. Lazear, Cultural Wars in America, Hoover Press, Stanford, 1996.
Philip Martin and Peter Duignan, Making and Remaking America: Immigration Into the United States, Hoover Press, 2003.
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, National
Academy of Science, Washington, D.C., 1997.
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