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| We will always be a nation
of immigrants. But runaway immigration rates - far beyond traditional
levels - are now savaging American society on many fronts. This
rigorously reported, deeply humane book documents the crisis and points
the way out of a government-engineered mess that benefits the rich at
the expense of almost everyone else including immigrants. The
immigration choices we face as a nation, and their costs, have never
been presented as fully and fairly as in this book. Its moral and
practical implications for America are inescapable. It resets the
parameters of an explosive national debate and points the way toward a
humane immigration policy that can heal the damage, honor America's best
traditions and ideals, and ensure that America remains a society of
opportunity for all its citizens, including immigrants
This book presents an "argument for cutting
immigration on the ground that it contributes to the 'crisis of the
middle class'--stagnant to falling real wages that breed deteriorating
communities and crumbling families. Mr. Beck . . . advocates capping
immigration to create labor shortages and so drive up wages, thus
recreating the working-class prosperity of the 1950's, while forcing the
adoption of labor-saving technology to cushion the impact of rising wage
costs on consumers. Immigration, he argues, has been particularly
harmful to blacks, whose social mobility was held back by European
immigrants during Reconstruction and is held back by Hispanics today.".
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