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At a time when, in France as in the rest of the world, the chasm between the elite and ordinary people has never been so wide, when the smugness of the affluent has never been so cruelly felt by the less fortunate, Zidane, a son of despised immigrants, became an international star, and yet preserved the simplicity of his origins.
In Guatemala, once again, President Oscar Berger was obviously proud to receive Bush, but failed to obtain a commitment from him to stop the inhuman, hateful Homeland Security raids by US law enforcement officers against undocumented immigrants, exemplified by the detention and attempt at deportation, on the eve of Bush’s visit, of nearly 300 Guatemalans working at a Massachussetts, military vest factory.
Persuaded as they are that France should act alone, they would close the economy to foreign competition, suppress financial markets, and send immigrants back to their homelands.
Slow growth and globalization have divided all European societies – and the United States – into two new classes: those whose education and social capital enable them to cope with today’s globalized economy, and those stuck in low-paid, often transient jobs (and thus most directly affected by competition from legal and illegal immigrants).
That news came on top of the Syrian refugee crisis, terrorist attacks by Syrian migrants and disaffected children of earlier immigrants, and highly publicized reports of assaults on women and girls by migrants in Germany and elsewhere.
For many Trump supporters, the crucial fact about the recent attack in Orlando is that the perpetrator was the son of Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan and acted in the name of anti-American sentiment (though committing mass murder with semi-automatic weapons is, alas, all too American).
They may oppose the use of their taxes to “subsidize” poorer people who do not share their identity, such as immigrants, French-speaking Belgians, southern Italians, or Greeks.
As a result, since 2007, the number of immigrants arriving each year has fallen by half, while the number of emigrants has tripled.
It is a bitter irony that John McCain, the war hero, is considered a traitor by the conservative wing of his party because he has a compassionate attitude towards undocumented immigrants.
Through public-private partnerships, local governments can support new immigrants without disrupting services to existing residents.
Elsewhere, populist anti-European parties of the right have been gaining ground with campaigns directed against immigrants and minorities, especially Muslims.
The immigrants themselves, they suggested, might have reactionary moral codes, but their children, growing up in today’s Britain, America, or Continental Europe, would be quite different.
The standard argument is that immigrants enrich the host, while leaving any incompatible characteristics at home.
Immigrants from Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, or Turkey will, in the course of a generation or two, become European in outlook and politics.
In the recent Dutch election, liberals could argue for respecting the rights of immigrants because respect and tolerance are traditional Dutch values, of which any Dutch patriot can be proud.
This seems all the more puzzling because Americans realize how badly Europe needs new immigrants, given its extremely low fertility rates.
Should the immigration minister be judged according to the number of illegal immigrants expelled?
As a result, the strategies employed by McDonald’s and other brands could affect the health of immigrants and minority groups more than that of other segments of the US population.
How can Germans demand that refugees and immigrants integrate themselves into German society, he asks, if Germans won’t even speak their own language?
He wants such a system to prevent encouraging a brain drain by enforcing a commitment to admitting low-skilled and desperate immigrants, not just those who are highly useful to the host country.
France has simply failed to incorporate minority citizens – many of them third-generation immigrants who have been educated for twenty years in assimilationist public schools.
In the European Union, immigrants accounted for 70% of labor-force growth from 2000 to 2010.
Faster growth is beneficial even if it must support a larger population, because working immigrants pay taxes that help support pensioners and retirees.
Moreover, in addition to expanding the workforce, immigrants actually boost per capita GDP by increasing productivity – that is, the amount that each worker produces.
The reason is that immigrants are much more likely to be entrepreneurial and to start new businesses.
In France, the OECD has estimated that immigrants engage in 29% more entrepreneurial activity than native-born workers do, which is similar to the average for the OECD as a whole.
And in the US, immigrants take out patents at 2-3 times the rate of native-born citizens, and their innovations benefit non-immigrants as well.
There can be little doubt that immigrants expand the overall pie; but what about their effect on how that pie is shared?
Yet, on balance, the available evidence suggests that immigrants do not reduce wages for native-born workers.
In fact, it is more likely that immigrants increase wages overall.
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