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America's New Immigrants: Essays on Immigration in the 1990s
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By Ron K. Unz
In Strangers at Our Gate (1993) , pp. 31-37
by Linda Chavez and John J. Miller
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A Return to
Ellis Island
by Ron K. Unz Immigration has recently become a lightning rod for America's
deepest fears of social chaos and national decline.
Millions worry that immigration is rapidly transforming
America into a Third World country with crowded, violent
cities; undereducated and low-skilled labor; and an ethnic spoils
system replacing America's tradition of constitutionalism and
individual rights. Concerns are rising that immigrants are abusing
the generosity of our welfare state and will become an enormous
burden on taxpayers. And because so many immigrants are
Spanish-speaking, many Americans fear that continued immigration,
especially from south of the border, will result in the
balkanization of our country into different language and ethnic
groups, ultimately leading to the sort of social tensions afflicting
countries from Canada to Ukraine or, in the worst case, Bosnia.
These are legitimate concerns, but the problems Americans
rightly fear are not due to immigration itself, but to the
wrongheaded social policies of our government. State-sponsored
affirmative action, bilingual education, and multiculturalism are
promoting dangerous levels of tensions and conflict among ethnic
groups. And our welfare system is breeding pathological levels
of crime and dependency�not primarily among immigrants,
but among native-born blacks and whites.
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at
Our Gate

Table of Contents

Preface: The New Immigration Challenge by Linda Chavez, pp. 5-11 - PDF

America's New Immigrants: Essays on Immigration in the 1990s
The Newest Newcomers by Oscar Handlin, pp. 12-17 - PDF
The Logic of Restriction by Nathan Glazer, pp. 18-24 - PDF
How To Cope with Today's Immigrants by Lawrence H. Fuchs, pp. 25-30 - PDF
A Return to Ellis Island by Ron K. Unz, pp. 31-37 - PDF
The Huddled Masses, Now on Welfare by George Borjas, pp. 38-44 - PDF
Do Illegal Immigrants Hurt Legal Ones? by Louis Winnick, pp. 45-48 - PDF
From Immigrants to Instant Ethnics by Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, pp. 49-52 - PDF
Mexico's Children by Richard Rodriguez, pp. 53-65 - PDF
Asians and the American Idea by Reed Ueda, pp. 66-69 - PDF
The Declining Significance of Race by Stephan Thernstrom, pp. 70-75 - PDF

Melting Pot or Boiling Point? The Great Immigration Debate: Francis Fukuyama and His Critics
Immigration, Assimilation, and Family Values, pp. 76-80 - PDF
Changing American Values: A Response by Michael Lind, pp. 81-83 - PDF
Deracinated Ethnics: A Response by Peter Skerry, pp. 84-86 - PDF
Immigrants and the Work Ethnic: A Response by Michael Fix, pp. 87-88 - PDF

The Great Immigration Debate
Making Americans by Joel Kotkin, pp. 89-91 - PDF
Unmaking America by Peter Brimelow, pp. 92-99 - PDF
The Index of Leading Immigration Indicators, pp. 100-122 - PDF
Contributors, pp. 123-130 - PDF