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Two Views of Immigration |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IMMIGRANTS AND AMERICA |
| Author: Cecil E. Bohanon and T. Norman Van Cott |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 1,873 Words, 11,838 Characters |
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ... I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
--Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
It's an old story, a story embedded in America's national psyche. An immigrant comes to the United States, drawn by beacons of economic opportunity, political freedom, and religious toleration. Lacking English-language skills and being unaware of America's cultural dynamics, the immigrant starts out on the bottom rung of the economic ladder.
Time overcomes the handicaps; fueled by a strong work ethic, the immigrant climbs the ladder. America ends up with a new American household, which, in turn, becomes the progenitor of other American households. A "nation of immigrants" is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world.
But...
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...consequences of immigration are less evenly distributed across the population. And just as the Luddites in nineteenth-century England smashed laborsaving textile machinery, one can expect (as observed throughout U.S. history) vehement opposition by those espousing the second immigrant story. Nevertheless, in the race among nations, victory will go to those nations more open to the first story.
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