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“To refuse admittance to every [healthy] immigrant... would be not only un-American but fatal to our fullest growth and prosperity, fatal to our ideals, fatal to democracy.” Malcolm Forbes Editor Forbes Magazine December 25, 1920
This one is worth thinking about. My instinct is that if we want the public to go along with more immigration then we have to have less multi-culturalism.
Here is a data-point for anti-immigrant populists to consider. The Wall Street Journal reported on 2/14 that: last year China passed Japan and became the second largest economy in the world. According to the article "China's rise shows that population now counts as much as productivity in determining economic power." If the USA is going to compete in the the world with giants like China and India we have to grow and immigration is the surest way to do it. We could spend half of the money we now spend on fences and guards, teaching English and American values to new immigrants. The goal a nation of five hundred million hard working, liberty loving people in thirty years.
According to the Pew Hispanic Center the number of undocumented people in the United States was the same in 2010 as it was in 2009. So our border is secure. "Border Security" was the prerequisite John McCain had for opposing Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) in 2008 and 2009. Maybe now he will flop back to supporting CIR and we can get it passed in this congress. Could he claim victory and champion CIR like he did in 2007 and win the Presidency?
Former Sacramento Police Chief Arturo Venegas's
December 1st comment sums up the progress made by the immigrants right movement in 2010.What Chief Venegas was
talking about was not just the failure of the Dream Act it was the failure of the Obama administration to stop the
deportations and their unwillingness to even propose comprehensive immigration
reform.
Fact:Deportations were at an all time high in 2010.
The Bracero Program was a mid 20th century guest worker program. The history of the program is the material for a fascinating touring exhibit organized by the Smithsonian. The
result was, as the subtitle of the exhibit explains, "a bittersweet harvest."
The Bracero Program may have been the best guest worker program possible but it still was demeaning
to the participants, fraught with corruption and caused some
exploitation of workers. On the other hand it gave millions of Mexican
workers: jobs, money and a vision of another life.
