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The step from here to lamenting the high taxes spent on welfare for immigrants is a but a short one.
One is to close borders to poor immigrants, eliminating any correlation between poverty and immigration.
His first idea and overriding catchphrase is to “build a wall” along the country’s southern border, which would supposedly keep out Mexican and other Latin immigrants.
The US is a nation of immigrants – the best in the world at integrating new arrivals.
In particular, voters were afraid that their jobs would be lost to hordes of Eastern immigrants, exemplified in the image widely quoted at the time, of the low-cost Polish plumber.
Where Europe WorksSTOCKHOLM – With Swedish cities roiled for weeks now by rioting by unemployed immigrants, many observers see a failure of the country’s economic model.
Wilders vs. SpinozaMADISON – A Dutch demagogue stirs up his followers in a campaign against immigrants.
Appealing to the public’s fears and nativist passions, he declares the culture of the immigrants antithetical to Dutch values and denounces their religion, which “scandalizes Christians,” as a kind of infectious disease.
In speeches and essays, he claims that the faith of these immigrants, while perhaps sincerely held, “does not have God as its source.”
The PVV has argued for the closing of all Islamic schools, the required “assimilation” of all immigrants (whatever that means), and even the prohibition of halal (Islamic) slaughter.
As a country of immigrants, the US is not based on shared ancestry or culture.
They helped rebuild the economies of war-torn Europe in the 1950’s, arriving as immigrants and then making Europe their home.
Officially 12 million people live in Moscow (not counting commuters and irregular immigrants) – more than in an average European country.
And Muslim immigrants live in Amsterdam, London, or Marseilles, not in the kind of small towns where right-wing populists find most of their support.
There are reasons for people to feel anxious about economic globalization, pan-European bureaucracy, the huge and not always effectively controlled influx of immigrants, and the aggression of radical political Islam.
Immigration and American PowerCAMBRIDGE – The United States is a nation of immigrants.
Except for a small number of Native Americans, everyone is originally from somewhere else, and even recent immigrants can rise to top economic and political roles.
President Franklin Roosevelt once famously addressed the Daughters of the American Revolution – a group that prided itself on the early arrival of its ancestors – as “fellow immigrants.”
The nineteenth-century “Know Nothing” movement was built on opposition to immigrants, particularly the Irish.
But, despite being a nation of immigrants, more Americans are skeptical about immigration than are sympathetic to it.
The recession exacerbated such views: in 2009, one-half of the US public favored allowing fewer immigrants, up from 39% in 2008.
Both the number of immigrants and their origin have caused concerns about immigration’s effects on American culture.
Modern media help new immigrants to learn more about their new country beforehand than immigrants did a century ago.
Indeed, most of the evidence suggests that the latest immigrants are assimilating at least as quickly as their predecessors.
In addition, though studies suggest that the short-term economic benefits of immigration are relatively small, and that unskilled workers may suffer from competition, skilled immigrants can be important to particular sectors – and to long-term growth.
At the beginning of this century, Chinese- and Indian-born engineers were running one-quarter of Silicon Valley’s technology businesses, which accounted for $17.8 billion in sales; and, in 2005, immigrants had helped to start one-quarter of all US technology start-ups during the previous decade.
Immigrants or children of immigrants founded roughly 40% of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies.
The fact that people want to come to the US enhances its appeal, and immigrants’ upward mobility is attractive to people in other countries.
Moreover, connections between immigrants and their families and friends back home help to convey accurate and positive information about the US.
Political leaders plead impotence, intellectuals dream up implausible global-governance schemes, and the losers increasingly blame immigrants or imports.
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