illegal immigration

The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 7 Apr 2026  · 342pp  · 129,097 words

most important task is to restore a sense of democratic control over immigration. The fact that a majority of Americans support the forcible repatriation of illegal immigrants does not mean that Americans have turned against immigration. An even bigger majority support a controlled increase in high-skilled immigration. Their objection is to

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about as serious problems rather than collective illusions and then offering better, liberal solutions. Liberals need to address popular worries about high immigration by reducing illegal immigration, even by drastic methods, reducing legal immigration to highly educated migrants and putting more emphasis on assimilation. They also need to address the problem of

"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky  · 23 Apr 2018  · 219pp  · 62,816 words

apply to everyone, so new immigrants need to follow them just as immigrants in the past did Myth 8. The country is being overrun by illegal immigrants Myth 9. The United States has a generous refugee policy PART THREE · IMMIGRATION AND RACE Myth 10. The United States is a melting pot that

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immigration. We still hear these same old myths recycled endlessly: Immigrants take American jobs! Immigrants don’t pay taxes! The country is being overrun by illegal immigrants! If people break our laws by immigrating illegally, they are criminals and should be deported! During Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and since his election

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DONALD TRUMP, IMMIGRATION, AND THE WORKING CLASS It wasn’t that big a jump from President Bill Clinton’s criminalization of immigrants with the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) to Obama’s recriminalization with humanitarian exceptions, to candidate and then president Donald Trump’s repeated references to immigrants

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—hear remarks such as: “Immigrants take our jobs and drive down wages.” “Why don’t they learn English?” or “I’m not against immigration, only illegal immigration.” After twenty years of teaching, writing, and organizing about immigration, it’s clear to me that many of the arguments currently being circulated are based

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most oft-repeated—and most puzzling—comments regarding the debate on immigration goes something like this: “I’m not against immigration, but I’m against illegal immigration. New immigrants should play by the rules, like our parents and forebears did.” The sentiment reveals a lot about how we’ve been taught to

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—about 1 percent—were turned back at Ellis Island because they were deemed to be criminals, prostitutes, diseased, anarchists, or paupers.2 There were no illegal immigrants from Europe because there was no law making immigration illegal for Europeans. It wasn’t until 1924 that numerical restrictions were placed on white European

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not apply to the Western Hemisphere—Congress couldn’t figure out what “race” Mexicans actually belonged to—the legislation also invented the concept of the “illegal immigrant” and created the Border Patrol to keep Mexicans out. (I describe these restrictions in more detail in the section on immigration and race below.) The

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seem to be a natural part of our immigration policy: the Border Patrol and deportation. In the process, it also created the category of the “illegal immigrant.” Prior to 1924, immigrants could be deported for committing certain crimes, but with an open border there was no such thing as illegal entry or

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windows and present written terms of employment to workers.” Milford revised zoning laws to prevent unrelated adults from sharing housing. Hazelton’s mayor signed the “Illegal Immigration Relief Act” to punish those who do business with, employ, or provide housing for undocumented immigrants.7 In New Hampshire, local police in Hudson and

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move away from its anti-immigrant stance. Dobbs takes a populist line against immigration, arguing that “big business and labor groups are the beneficiaries of illegal immigration, the true costs are borne by taxpayers and working Americans.”13 “American working men and women are under the most vicious assault from so-called

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free trade, job outsourcing to cheap foreign labor markets, rising healthcare costs, a failing educational system, massive illegal immigration, and stagnant wages,” Dobbs writes, taking unions to task for failing to protect their members’—and other working people’s—interests.14 Still, despite the

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professional political consultants who ran the campaign “concluded it was necessary to concede the problematic nature of immigration, but find something even more unpopular than ‘illegal’ immigrants to blame, preferably the Federal government for failing to police the border adequately. A second set of messages played on voters’ fears: rampaging gangs of

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characteristics. We could start by rolling back the punitive and discriminatory changes that have been made in the last several decades, especially in the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.1 Revoking some of the most draconian elements of that law would be a logical first step in a process

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most federal aid programs (food stamps, Medicaid) unless they have lived in the U.S. for five years, and allows states to create further restrictions. Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) greatly increases funding for Border Patrol and detention of aliens; increases penalties for unlawful entry and facilitates deportation; requires

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(USCIS), all under the new Department of Homeland Security. 2005 REAL ID Act sets stricter identification requirements for driver’s licenses. Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (also known as the Sensenbrenner Bill) approved by the US House of Representatives. Criminalizes most immigration violations and obliges local authorities to enforce

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High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget,” Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004, 7, www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscal.pdf. 2. Camarota, “High Cost of Cheap Labor.”

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: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). 2. Ngai, Impossible Subjects, 18. MYTH 8: THE COUNTRY IS BEING OVERRUN BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS 1. United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Fact Sheet, www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas  · 19 Jan 2010  · 492pp  · 70,082 words

may fill needs of the business community, yet political concerns may limit newcomers, regardless of shortages (Bruner, 1997). Thus, quantitative immigration policy restrictions may heighten illegal immigration, or groups may enter under nonimmigrant trainee or exchange agreements. On the other hand, immigration policy may be relatively open and natives may perceive a

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to 700,000 and established the Immigrant Investor Program. 1996: Welfare Reform ended many cash and medical assistance programs for most legal immigrants. 1996: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) expanded enforcement operations of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 2001: The USA Patriot Act, in response to the September

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migrants from Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. Illegality is in fact one of the major characteristics of migration inflows to Russia. Illegal Immigration The dominant type of immigration to Russia, illegal immigration is very diversified. It consists of the following major inflows (Krasinets et al., 2000:80–82): (1) The citizens of

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Immigration policy of the Russian Federation during the post-Soviet period is characterized as contradictory, inconsistent, and nonstrategic. Emphasis on rigorous police measures to combat illegal immigration, inspired by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and a number of acts of terror executed by migrants in Russia, proved

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might displace native workers from their jobs, depress earnings, and abuse the social benefit system. Another assumed relationship aired in the media is that between illegal immigration and crime (Corkill 2000). Generally speaking, the racist attitudes that have reemerged in contemporary Europe no longer place as much stress on biological differences,

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Party government. Based on the premise that the ‘‘capacity for receiving (immigrants) is not unlimited,’’ the new measures introduced fast-track expulsion procedures for illegal immigrants and expanded the range of offenses to include people-smuggling and profiting from it. According to the immigration minister, more than 92,000 illegal foreigners

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the quota policy had not operated as expected. Vacancies for both long-term and seasonal jobs Spain have remained unfilled, despite the estimated 300,000 illegal immigrants in the country. In 2000, the Interior ministry launched the GRECO program initiative to ensure the desired ‘‘controlled immigration.’’ It drew a sharper distinction

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authorities attempted to use the quota to limit further immigration, the number of migrants entering Spain continued its inexorable rise. Periodic amnesty laws have permitted illegal immigrants to apply for legal status. Four such ‘‘regularization’’ processes have taken place. In the first one (1985–1986), 30,181 residence and work permits

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maritime frontier, particularly along the Mediterranean coast. To improve surveillance, the European Union helped fund a SIVE (Integrated System for External Vigilance) to combat illegal immigration. Radars and night vision cameras enabled frontier police to track any vessel at all times. Tougher measures included the opening of detention centres opened for

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OECD (2003), Economic Surveys: Spain, Paris: OECD. Ortega Pérez, N. (2003), ‘‘Spain: Forging an immigration policy,’’ Migration Information Source (migrationinformation.org). Reyneri, E. (2003), ‘‘Illegal immigration and the underground economy,’’ National Europe Centre Paper, No. 18. Solé, C., & Parella, S. (2003), ‘‘The labour market and racial discrimination in Spain,’’ Journal of

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Lambrianidis, L., and Lymperaki, A. (2001) Albanian immigrants in Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis (in Greek). Lianos T. P., Sarris, A. H., and Katseli, L. T. (1996). Illegal immigration and local labour markets: The case of northern Greece. International Migration, 34, 3, 449–484. Mavreas, K. (1998). Dimensions of social exclusion: Pontic Greek and

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 25, 2, 313–331. Sarris, A., and Zografakis, S. (1999) A computable general equilibrium assessment of the impact of illegal immigration on the Greek economy. Journal of Population Economics, 12, 155–182. Soubert, L. (2004). Immigrant associations in Greece: Solidarity groups or interest groups? Dissertation submitted

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all immigrants and difficulties in keeping abreast with the legal and policy provisions that govern them. The interchangeable use of the terms ‘‘migrant,’’ ‘‘refugee,’’ and ‘‘illegal immigrant’’ in government and media discourse, coupled with reactive legislation to enhance state control over immigration, further deepens those insecurities. At the policy level the government

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: Forming and Transforming a Bureaucratic Identity.’’ Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1. Irish Legislation Aliens Act, 1935. Employment Permits Act(s), 2003, 2006. Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act, 2000. Immigration Act(s), 1999, 2003, 2004. Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act(s) 1956, 1986, 1994, 2001, 2004. Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Act,

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for Border Control and Aliens), with specific authority to Portugal deliver Authorizations of Residence. The SEF is also competent for the prevention and repression of illegal immigration, together with the police and the Judicial Police. The ACIDI, created in 2007, succeeded to the High Commission for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities—ACIME

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, the government of China welcomed their return. Furthermore, the long lasting civil wars in several countries of the Asian subcontinent instigated both legal and illegal immigration of the Overseas Chinese to Mainland China. The territorial conflicts between China and Vietnam beginning in the mid-1970s witnessed another wave of cross-border

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locals and then arrange for other relatives to enter China, also illegally (Global Times, 2006). According to a featured report on illegal immigration to China (International Herald Leader, 2007), with more illegal immigration activities, counterfeit visas to China are sought in many African, East Asian, and West Asian countries. Many individuals from Africa

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abundant supply of cheap labor, especially in the agricultural sector, but was opposed to black migrants’ applying for citizenship. This dispels the myth that ‘‘illegal immigration began after the end of apartheid’’ (Vigneswaran, 2008:141). The racist orientation of South African immigration policy became very evident when the government welcomed whites

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large scale black immigration’’ (Mercury, October 26, 1995). Various policy options have been advocated to resolve the illegal immigrant issue, ranging from tighter border controls and implementation of law and order, to those that attempt to understand the problem in its regional and historical

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Skills migration and the South African brain drain. SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 18. Crush, J., and Williams, V. (2001). Making up the numbers: Measuring ‘‘illegal immigration’’ to South Africa. South African Migration Project, Migration Policy Brief No. 3. Crush, J., and Williams, V. (2005). International migration and development: Dynamics and challenges

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using immigration to attract critical foreign investment, transfer of technology and human resource capital/skills for socioeconomic development. Running concurrently is the policy to prevent illegal immigration, transnational crime, Ghana economic exploitation, and social corruption. The policy is given effect in the following legislation: (1) Immigration Act, 2000, Act 573; (2)

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that ‘‘regulate’’ illegal immigration (China, Brazil, Spain). Several of these measures are short-term minimal resolutions to the dilemma of this population. France and the UK indicate stringent approaches

Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

by Colin Yeo;  · 15 Feb 2020  · 393pp  · 102,801 words

want everyone in the country to help with this,’ David Cameron said in a major speech on immigration in October 2011, ‘including by reporting suspected illegal immigrants to our Border Agency through the Crimestoppers phone line or the Border Agency website. Together I do believe we can reclaim our borders and send

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illegal immigrants home.’28 And now there is indeed an Immigration Enforcement Hotline, as well as an online reporting form that concerned citizens can use if they

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reduce the need for expensive, unpleasant and resource-hogging enforced removals, involving dawn raids, detention and charter flights, because life would be so hard for illegal immigrants that they would ‘self-deport’. However, all this ignores the costs of implementing the policy itself and creating the systems to routinely check immigration status

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up being absorbed into existing budgets where they squeeze service delivery even more, may well outweigh the savings. The hostile environment is supposed to discourage illegal immigration but there is no evidence to suggest it works. No targets were set, no evaluation has been commissioned and the expense of implementation may very

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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson  · 15 Nov 2021  · 458pp  · 132,912 words

on public assistance reside in California. Approximately one-fifth of the state’s population lives below the poverty line, largely as a result of massive illegal immigration from the poorest regions of southern Mexico and Central America, which lowers wages and increases social entitlement costs. About one-third of Californians are now

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presence within the borders of the United States is becoming synonymous with the privilege of being an American citizen. As we shall learn, massive and illegal immigration has proved a disaster for the idea of American citizenship by lowering wages, straining government services, undermining the sanctity of the law, energizing tribalism,

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. So it has been during the last half century with nonenforcement of immigration law and the conflation of citizenship and mere residency. The politics of illegal immigration into America over the last fifty years is, in truth, not complicated at all. Simply put, corporate America wanted cheap imported labor without the

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foreign poor by inviting them to enter America. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jerry Kammer recently dedicated an entire book to the unlikely bedfellows who enabled illegal immigration: “Corporations cited the authority of free-market libertarians who argued that the market—that is, supply and demand–governed wages—should trump border enforcement.

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immigration law rhetorically while doing little about it. This schizophrenia of damning while empowering unlawful entries was emblematized by President Bill Clinton’s warning about illegal immigration—to bipartisan thunderous applause—in his 1995 State of the Union address to Congress: All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but

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would have earned Obama the charge of racism and xenophobia. Nonetheless, despite changing demography and often politicized polls, the public—including immigrants—remain opposed to illegal immigration. American citizens of Mexican origin often resent unlawful invasion into either Mexico or the United States from Central America. Americans especially found offensive the exemption

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ways. One tactic was to conflate illegal with legal immigration in polling questions in an attempt to downplay public opposition. Rarely asked whether they opposed “illegal” immigration, voters were usually just polled about “immigration” in general, which they typically took to mean traditional legal, measured, meritocratic, and diverse immigration. They were

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entrants and residents and continued “comprehensive” nonenforcement of immigration law.14 In Orwellian fashion, language continues to be reinvented to reflect the political massaging of illegal immigration. The key to understanding the entire immigration controversy is to remember the sustained attempt to remove the critical adjective “illegal” from any of the many

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allowed their parents to enter the United States illegally and reside without worrying about the legal consequences. Suddenly both parties realized that the politics of illegal immigration had permanently changed. The Democrats subtly shed their past vocal opposition—especially now that their union labor base was eroding. Openly supporting defiance of federal

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a dystopia.20 How and why did immigration descend into an often illegal and chaotic process? How did residency become conflated with citizenship? How did illegal immigration contribute to the tribalism of the salad bowl? How did millions of newcomers arrive illegally, expecting to become exempt from elements of their hosts’ own

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a needed safety valve and thereby ward off communist revolutions in Mexico and Central America. Also helpful to the Mexican government’s policy of encouraging illegal immigration into the United States were the views of some Mexican citizens that the American Southwest still properly belonged to Mexico. For example, in a controversial

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of twenty million residing illegally in the United States, it is easy to find antithetical data or empirical observations in support of the idea that illegal immigration, coupled with massive nonmeritocratic legal immigration, enhances or endangers America, or both, or neither. Business interests came to support open borders for cheap entry-

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of immigration of all kinds were too high than thought they were too low. Aside from particular grievances, the public has a general sense that illegal immigration has made their own citizenship less exceptional. Few can identify the vestigial differences between citizenship and legal or illegal residence anymore. In theory, only a

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of our past history and present circumstances.31 But how exactly do these various changes in laws and attitudes, as well as numbers, suggest that illegal immigration endangers the broader concept of citizenship? They do so in a number of ways. First, consider again the 560 jurisdictions that proclaim themselves sanctuaries for

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with Sanders that the United States was an illiberal nation that had rigged the game against exploited working classes.37 Fourth, illegal immigration warps the census. It eventually alters the very way citizens vote in the Electoral College and are apportioned congressional representation. There were few, if any

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in congressional reapportionment diminishes the unique value of citizenship. Massive recent illegal and legal immigration may radically recalibrate the allocation of congressional seats.38 Fifth, illegal immigration has resulted in a spike in crime that affects the safety of American citizens, not surprising when hundreds of thousands walk into the United States

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booklets at the border—cynically exporting its illiterate citizens by teaching them how to break US immigration law with impunity. In 2017, both legal and illegal immigrants of all nationalities sent nearly $150 billion out of the United States. Nor does the Mexican government care that scrimping and saving to send remittances

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convenience or assumes no one but those here illegally will do his yard work, should we laugh or cry?43 Fourth, yet another catalyst of illegal immigration is the self-interested professional Latino lobby in politics and academia. Activists apparently see a steady stream of impoverished Latin American nationals as a revolving

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Julián Castro (D-TX) advocated decriminalizing illegal entry into the United States and recalibrating this violation as a civil infraction.44 Ethnic chauvinism often enables illegal immigration—and often is used blatantly both to encourage ethnic solidarity and to diminish critics with charges of purported racism. Only in 2018, after decades of

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believe the transformation is in part due to open borders. Again, changing demography explains a radical transformation in the Democratic Party’s past stance on illegal immigration. In the early 2000s, influential Democratic congressional leaders such as Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Harry Reid (D-NV), and Charles Schumer (D-NY),

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1992, our borders might as well not have existed. The border was under-patrolled, and what patrols there were, were under-equipped. Drugs flowed freely. Illegal immigration was rampant. Criminal immigrants, deported after committing crimes in America, returned the very next day to commit crimes again. By 2016, they were all for

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a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I have learned that I cannot talk or write freely and dispassionately about certain topics—illegal immigration, global warming, identity politics, abortion, affirmative action, Donald Trump, or policies concerning COVID-19 quarantine—without campus or student and faculty efforts to restrict

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Project at UCSB, February 12, 2013, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-before-joint-session-congress-the-state-the-union-2. On the unpopularity of illegal immigration in Mexico, cf. Kevin Sieff and Scott Clement, “Unauthorized Immigrants Face Public Backlash in Mexico, Survey Finds,” Washington Post, July 17, 2019, www.washingtonpost.

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“Language in the Immigration Debate,” Center for Immigration Studies, October 26, 2012, https://cis.org/Language-Immigration-Debate. 16. For the Democrats’ new acceptance of illegal immigration, see a synopsis of recent polls: Craig Kafura and Bettina Hammer, “Republicans and Democrats in Different Worlds on Immigration,” Chicago Council on Global Affairs, October

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8, 2019, www.thechicagocouncil.org/publication/lcc/republicans-and-democrats-different-worlds-immigration. 17. Costs of illegal immigration: Steven A. Camarota, “Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households: An Analysis of Medicaid, Cash, Food, and Housing Programs,” Center for Immigration Studies, September 10

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LBJ Presidential Library, October 3, 1965, www.lbjlibrary.org/lyndon-baines-johnson/timeline/lbj-on-immigration. 26. Former President Trump stated that the cost of illegal immigration (i.e., the cost of services received minus their tax contributions) is over $200 billion annually and perhaps as high as $275 billion. This amount

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, www.heritage.org/immigration/report/the-fiscal-cost-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty-the-us-taxpayer. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine estimates that illegal immigration actually benefits the economy: Francine D. Blau and Christopher Mackie, The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration (Washington, DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and

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Department of Homeland Security, 2018, www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2018/enforcement_actions_2018.pdf. 28. On the relationship between illegal immigration and anemic entry-level wages for American workers, see Krikorian, The New Case Against Immigration, 148–153. 29. Voting: “Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Reject Voting

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/local/2019/11/27/list-of-second-amendment-sanctuaries-in-virginia-and-where-its-being-discussed. 34. On the extent of false documentations used by illegal immigrants, see R. Mortensen, “Illegal, but Not Undocumented: Identity Theft, Document Fraud, and Illegal Employment,” Center for Immigration Studies, June 19, 2009, https://cis.org/

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of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020,” Center for Immigration Studies, December 9, 2019, https://cis.org/Report/Impact-Legal-and-Illegal-Immigration-Apportionment-Seats-US-House-Representatives-2020; “Exit Polls 2016,” CNN, November 23, 2016, https://edition.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls. Given that,

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of Federal Prisoners Are Aliens,” Center for Immigration Studies, June 12, 2018, https://cis.org/Huennekens/DOJ-26-Federal-Prisoners-Are-Aliens. 40. Crimes and illegal immigration: “US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fiscal Year 2019 Enforcement and Removal Operations Report,” US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents

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Safe in Sanctuary Cities, Thanks toConservative Justices,” Reason, February 2, 2017, https://reason.com/2017/02/02/undocumented-aliens-may-be-safe-in-sanct. 42. Illegal immigration and crime: Heather Mac Donald, “The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave,” City Journal, winter 2004, www.city-journal.org/html/illegal-alien-crime-wave-12492.html

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66c2-4b33-b41e-1feb29bf1f75.html. Epilogue: Citizenship, the Annus Horribilis, and the November 2020 Election 1. Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “Radical Decline in Illegal Immigration: U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Total Dips to Lowest Level in a Decade,” Pew Research Center, November 27, 2018, www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2018/11/27

The Price of Everything: And the Hidden Logic of Value

by Eduardo Porter  · 4 Jan 2011  · 353pp  · 98,267 words

of passage. But it would lower the risk that his children would perish along the way. The debate among Americans about illegal immigration is itself a discussion about prices. Critics charge that illegal immigrants lower the price of natives’ labor by offering to do the job for less. They argue that immigrants impose a

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would disappear too, along with an array of jobs from the fields to the packing plant. We would import the asparagus and the strawberries instead. Illegal immigrants do affect prices in the United States. One study calculated that the surge in immigration experienced between 1980 and 2000 reduced the average price of

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undercutting wages. Still, it had a negligible impact on natives’ wages because poor illegal immigrants compete in the job market with other poor illegal immigrants. Immigration policy has always been determined by who bears its costs and who draws its benefits. Illegal immigrants are tolerated by the political system because their cheap labor is useful for

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suggests that despite presidential lip service to the need to reform immigration law, nothing much is likely to be done. Creating a legal path for illegal immigrants to work in the United States would be politically risky and could provide a big incentive for more illegal flows. By contrast, cutting

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illegal immigration entirely would be prohibitively costly. The status quo is too comfortable to bear tinkering like that. The ebb and flow of immigration will continue to

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. In 1986, they pressed to pass the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which legalized nearly 3 million illegal immigrants. After that, their investments in laborsaving technology froze. By 1999, capital investments had fallen 46.7 percent from their peak in 1980. Indeed, the institution

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replaced them with something cheaper. Farmers today estimate that about 70 percent of the million or so hired workers tilling fields and picking crops are illegal immigrants. In 2006, as the United States Congress debated an overhaul of immigration law, I met Faylene Whitaker, a farmer who grew tobacco, tomatoes, and other

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?” Presentation, Department of Political Science, Miranda House, Delhi University (http://www.undp-povertycentre.org/pressroom/files/ipc126.pdf, accessed 08/13/2010). The analysis of illegal immigration into the United States draws from: Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, “Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” Center for American

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, “Agricultural Labor Productivity in the Lower South, 1720-1800,” Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 39, No. 4, October 2002, pp. 390-424. The impact of illegal immigration on capital investments in American agriculture is discussed in Eduardo Porter, “In Florida Groves, Cheap Labor Means Machines,” New York Times, March 22, 2004. Data

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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

by Guy Standing  · 27 Feb 2011  · 209pp  · 89,619 words

factories suspected of employing ‘illegals’. Although President Obama ordered an end to such raids, they could easily return. The Arizona law of 2010, which made illegal immigration a state misdemeanour as well as a federal civil violation, intensified the tension between migrants and ‘native citizens’ fearful of joining the precariat. It requires

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and social mobility, a substantial part will continue to drift to the dangerous extreme. The Tea Party’s first national convention contained much talk of illegal immigration and opposition to ‘the cult of multiculturalism’ and ‘Islamification’. T-shirts had slogans such as ‘I’ll keep my freedom, my guns and my money

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

by Daniel Gordis  · 17 Oct 2016  · 632pp  · 171,827 words

established an underground newspaper and radio system. Even the leadership of the Yishuv sensed that it needed to alter its strategy. It began to endorse illegal immigration and exerted more effort in helping Jews to enter Palestine. The Yishuv was now losing any real hope that the British would fulfill the promise

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those fleeing Europe enter Palestine, in late 1938, the Haganah established an organization, Mossad le-Aliyah Bet (Organization for Immigration B) to aid in this illegal immigration. The Mossad le-Aliyah Bet procured ships and crews, gathered the prospective immigrants, had them sail to Palestine, and arranged for them to be assisted

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could do. On May 6, 1942, as the British War Cabinet agreed upon an official statement that “all practicable steps should be taken to discourage illegal immigration into Palestine,” Zionist leaders met at an Extraordinary Zionist Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York to express international Jewry’s resolve to create

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had also closed its borders to Jews during the war and had little moral authority to summon; the British refused. So the Yishuv stepped up illegal immigration. Between 1945 and 1948, in what constituted a massive and often heroic effort to save the remnants of European Jewry, it assisted many thousands of

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months of intensive study and investigation. As there were still hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust desperate for a place to go, illegal immigration continued apace. While UNSCOP deliberated, another ship carrying homeless Jews once again captured headlines. This ship was the Exodus; again, the British were still unwilling

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provide “real” housing, but soon, the conditions in the ma’abarot were just as bad. ma’apilim—Ma’apilim was the Hebrew name given to illegal immigrants who came to the Yishuv when immigration was severely limited during the British Mandate. Some of the ma’apilim were successful while others were caught

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Saul Tchernichovsky. © 2014 The Bank of Israel Eliezer Ben-Yehuda surrounded by books. Central Zionist Archives Hayim Nachman Bialik at his desk. Central Zionist Archives ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Illegal immigration—in defiance of British restrictions—was critical in the early years, both to save Jews fleeing Europe as well as to amass a population sufficient

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) Ma’apilim is taken from the Hebrew word va-ya’apilu, which means “defiantly they marched.” The use of a biblical term for this defiant illegal immigration stressed that this was a return home, the continuation of an ancient and sacred story. * What is today known as the Western Wall is a

A History of Modern Britain

by Andrew Marr  · 2 Jul 2009  · 872pp  · 259,208 words

figures were 4.7 million people identifying themselves as black or Asian, or 7.9 per cent of the total population, though with large-scale illegal immigration since then, the true numbers are certainly higher. Immigrants are far more strongly represented, in percentage terms as well as raw numbers, in London and

Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

by David Frum  · 25 May 2020  · 319pp  · 75,257 words

fight, that will be the official end of Iran.”27 He threatened to close the border with Mexico. “If Mexico doesn’t immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States through our Southern Border, I will be CLOSING . . . the Border, or large sections of the Border, next week.”28 He

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political points against me and the Republican Party.”16 The Pittsburgh synagogue killer fantasized that a global Jewish conspiracy headed by George Soros was masterminding illegal immigration to the United States and Europe. Even after the synagogue shooting, Trump still repeated on November 1, 2018, that “he wouldn’t be surprised” and

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controlled, but eligibility must be defined and enforced. The path to citizenship that Democrats want for illegal residents must begin with demonstrated proof that large illegal immigration flows have been stopped forever. Canada is a country generally regarded as uniquely welcoming to immigration. Yet in July 2011, the second-highest Canadian federal

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authoritarians their most powerful weapons, their most appealing arguments. Against communism, that means responding to social concerns. Against fascists, that means responding to national concerns. Illegal immigration must be curtailed, not with a wall on the border, but with inspections and meaningful penalties against employers of illegal labor. Employers must be provided

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