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Should immigrants embrace the offer?
The power of nation states remains strong, and immigrants must deal with them in their daily lives.
In pursuing it, immigrants may also begin to free their longer-established fellow Europeans from their attachment to a fortress that, if taken to extremes, could well become a prison for all.
The state of Arizona recently enacted legislation that encourages local police to check the immigration status of people who were stopped for other reasons – and requires immigrants to produce proof of their legal status on demand.
The nineteenth-century “Know Nothing” Party was built upon opposition to immigrants, particularly the Irish.
Asians were singled out for exclusion from 1882 onward, and, with the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, the influx of immigrants slowed for four decades.
Despite being a nation of immigrants, more Americans are skeptical about immigration than are sympathetic to it.
Depending on the poll, either a plurality or majority wants fewer immigrants.
Both the numbers and origins of the new immigrants have caused concerns about immigration’s effects on American culture.
Data from the 2000 census show a soaring Hispanic population, owing largely to waves of new immigrants, legal and illegal.
Most of the evidence suggests that the latest immigrants are assimilating at least as quickly as their predecessors.
Modern media also help new immigrants to know more about their new country beforehand than immigrants did a century ago.
In addition, even though studies suggest that the short-term, directly measurable economic benefits at the national level are relatively small, and unskilled workers may suffer from competition, skilled immigrants can be important to particular economic sectors.
In 1998, Chinese- and Indian-born engineers were running one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s high-technology businesses, which accounted for $17.8 billion in sales, and in 2005, foreign-born immigrants had helped start one in four American technology start-ups over the previous decade.
The fact that people want to come to the US, together with immigrants’ upward mobility, enhances the country’s appeal.
While one can understand the resistance of ordinary American citizens to competition from foreign immigrants during a period of high unemployment, it would be ironic if the current debate were to lead to policies that cut the US off from one of it unique sources of strength.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy’s League party who is now Minister of the Interior in Italy’s coalition government, recalls the cozy atmosphere of his meeting with Putin in 2014: “We talked about the absurd sanctions against Russia introduced by the cowardly EU that defends the interests not of its own citizens, but rather of the economic oligarchs,” and about “important topics ranging from the protection of national autonomy to the fight against illegal immigrants and defense of traditional values.”
In principle, even inactive immigrants will then be eligible for social-welfare benefits, just like nationals.
In practice, however, financial means in the form of assets or regular income are uniformly required from all immigrants, regardless of their individual characteristics.
Immigrants have crowded out domestic residents who prefer the benefits to engaging in low-wage competition with the newcomers.
As no West European state wants welfare immigration, and because they are unable to discriminate between nationals and EU immigrants, they will begin to reduce their services.
If the home country were to remain responsible for welfare services to non-working immigrants, the erosion of West European welfare states that the theory of systems competition predicts could be halted.
Take, for example, the recent immigrants from the countryside who live in neighborhoods surrounding San Jose, Costa Rica amid social disorder and burgeoning crime.
It is no wonder, therefore, that locally trained young people in America, and to a large extent in Europe, tend to avoid university science departments, with new students largely recruited from among recent immigrants.
During the campaign, Trump often used scapegoats – especially immigrants and major developing-world exporters, such as China and Mexico – to attract support.
Although we refugees, immigrants, exiles, and outcasts do not boast ad infinitum that “we are the best,” as many Americans do, we still believe that the US remains a powerful guarantor of freedom and democracy, and we consider its incoherence part of its liberty.
That may be a reason why there is so little urgency in solving the problem of undocumented immigrants in the US, and why many countries protect citizens differently than foreigners.
Second, cities should ensure that employment and entrepreneurship opportunities are available to all people, including women, young adults, immigrants, and disadvantaged populations.
In New York, de Blasio’s IDNYC initiative is providing free government-issued identification cards for all residents – including the homeless, undocumented immigrants, and former convicts – so that marginalized groups can make use of the city’s resources.
Block Benefits, Not ImmigrantsAs EU enlargement approaches, people across Western Europe fear a flood of job-seeking immigrants from the postcommunist accession countries.
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