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Total Amnesty for Illegal Aliens? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICA |
| Author: Jim F. Couch, J. Douglas Barrett, Peter M. Williams |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,068 Words, 13,712 Characters |
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Surprisingly, arguments surrounding the subject of immigration have changed little over the years. Consider the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's foremost essayists, in "Wealth" (which appeared in The Conduct of Life in 1860). Emerson asserts that
"Britain, France, and Germany ... send out, first attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop. At first we employ them and increase our prosperity; but in the artificial system of society and of protected labor ... there come presently checks and stoppages. Then we refuse to employ poor men. They go into the poor-rates, and though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same in the form of taxes. Again, it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are co...
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...cally been welcomed. Amnesty proposals--or earned legalization schemes--undermine legal immigration efforts and the integrity of our borders.
Americans deserve a system that protects us from those wishing to do us harm but accepts those who can contribute to our overall economic health. The manner in which public policy is developed, however, makes the development of such a system unlikely.
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