Illegal detour: thinking reasonably about immigration.(PUBLIC POLICY II)

From: National Review | Date: March 27, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

ILLEGAL immigration is not a big problem in America. Okay, let me amend that before pots and pans and worse things come flying at me. America has some serious immigration problems, but they are not distinctively problems of illegal immigration. If we focus narrowly on illegal immigration, we are likely to come up with counterproductive solutions.

Almost all of the things that cause people to complain about illegal immigration are true of much legal immigration as well. If your worry is that illegal immigrants tend to raise government spending, for example, then you ought to ...

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