The new cases Against Immigration

[sj5 4]

The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal

by Mark Krikorian

Sentinel (part of the Penguin Group), 2008

ISBN 1595230351

We've all heard the laments: "My grandpa from Sicily learned English, and my grandma from Minsk got by without welfare. So what's the problem with immigrants today?"

As Mark Krikorian argues is this provocative book, what's different today is not the immigrants, but us. Today's immigrants are very similar to those of a century ago, but they are coming to a very different America -- one where changes in the economy, society, and government create fundamentally different incentives for newcomers. In other words, the America that our grandparents came to no longer exists. And this simple fact must become the new starting point for the explosive debate about immigration policy.

Krikorian argues that although mass immigration once served our national interests, in today's America it weakens our common national identity, limits opportunities for upward mobility, threatens our security and sovereignty, strains resources for social programs, and disrupts middle-class norms of behavior.

So as the politicians argue about border fences and amnesty, they are missing the bigger picture: the harmful impact of large-scale settlement of all kinds of immigrants, whether legal or illegal, skilled or unskilled, temporary or permanent, European or Latin or Asian or African. Modern America has simply outgrown immigration, and we must end it before it cripples us.

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Read the Introduction to The New Case Against Immigration.

To arrange a speaking engagement for Mark Krikorian, please contact the Penguin Speakers Bureau.

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Advance praise for The New Case Against Immigration:

"Mark Krikorian steps back from today's debates and examines the big picture, questioning the place of immigration in a modern society. Agree or disagree with his proposals, this is an important book -- not just for conservatives, but for all Americans."

-- William J. Bennett, host of Bill Bennett's Morning in America

"Superbly researched and brilliantly argued, The New Case Against Immigration should settle the debate once and for all. Civilized, compassionate, and wise, this short book may save a great nation."

-- David Frum, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute

"Mark Krikorian has been the go-to guy for those of us skeptical of the Bush-McCain approach to immigration. He combines deep knowledge, political savvy, calm and compassion with something that's rare in this field: common sense. In this ambitious book he takes the immigration debate a step further, placing it in an overarching framework that will be as controversial as it is powerful. If you want to find all the best anti-amnesty arguments in one place, The New Case Against Immigration is the place to look. It is to the immigration debate what Losing Ground was to the poverty debate. My copy is already dog-eared."

-- Mickey Kaus, author of The End of Equality

"When it comes to our immigration mess, no one has a deeper understanding of the facts than Mark Krikorian. Pay attention: America's future is at stake."

-- Michelle Malkin, syndicated columnist

"Mark Krikorian concisely marshals the arguments on one side of the immigration debate. I am sure that many will disagree with his inferences and conclusions -- but I am also sure that anyone wishing to seriously argue the other side will have to address the many questions and doubts presented here. In short, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the most volatile social policy issue of the new century."

-- George Borgas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

"This is a radical book, clearly and forcefully written, with the potential to change the immigration debate forevermore. No matter where you stand on immigration policy, you better be ready to confront The New Case Against Immigration."

-- Heather MacDonald, John M. Olin Fellow, Manhattan Institute; coauthor of The Immigration Solution

"Mark Krikorian has waged an often lonely war to restore some sanity to immigration policy. His latest book will be caricatured by many as insensitive -- especially his calls to select legal immigrants carefully only on the basis of skills and merit. Yet The New Case Against Immigration is a classically liberal call for assimilation and integration in the best past traditions of a multiracial America. The onus is on his critics to show where his economic, cultural, and social arguments are flawed or inexact -- and that will be difficult indeed, given such a carefully researched and argued book."

-- Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; author of Mexifornia

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REVIEWS/COLUMNS

David Frum: "Mark Krikorian's The New Case Against Immigration will head any list of the outstanding public policy books of 2008. ... This is a book that will anchor the national conversation on immigration in the months ahead"

Phyllis Schlafly: "Many arguments, pro and con, about how to deal with illegal aliens have been passionately debated over the past couple of years, but there are still other arguments that need public exposure. Mark Krikorian presents a new argument in his forthcoming book called The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal."

Cal Thomas: "Krikorian is a grandson of Armenian immigrants and he says America is not the country it was when his grandfather arrived. If we don't change, he says, it won't be a country worth handing over to future generations."

Dimitri Vassilaros: "Immigrants to America have not changed much. But their new homeland sure has. That's why Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, says the golden door must be slammed shut to illegal and legal aliens."

source: http://www.cis.org/NewCase

Edited June 29, 2008 by SJ

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Sounds to me it is deserving of replacing the Sears Roebuck catalogue in the outhouse . . .

Edited June 29, 2008 by Kathryn41

[sj5 4]

i'm thinking.. he is getting nuts because of gasoline price.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

. . . maybe he has been trying to smell the fumes after filling his car just so he doesn't lose any of what he paid for.

[sj5 4]

. . . maybe he has been trying to smell the fumes after filling his car just so he doesn't lose any of what he paid for.

[Niels Bohr 72]

We can laugh, but, he has the voice. A voice is very strong if there are no opposition. We can gather evidence, and write a book defending immigration to counter his voice.

Edited June 30, 2008 by consolemaster

[Jenn! 918]

We can laugh, but, he has the voice. A voice is very strong if there are no opposition. We can gather evidence, and write a book defending immigration to counter his voice.

I nominate you to lead the charge!