Alien
Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
Peter Brimelow calls
for an end to all illegal immigration, a drastic cutback in legal immigration,
policies favoring skilled immigrants and elimination of all payments and free
public education for illegals and their children.
Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's
Immigration Disaster
Author Peter
Brimelow
Description
The
controversial, bestselling book that helps define the debate about one of the most important and
hotly contested issues facing America: immigration.
From
Publishers Weekly: Forbes senior editor Brimelow's alarmist, slashing
anti-immigration manifesto is likely to stir debate. He maintains that the 1965
Immigration Act and its recent amplifications choked off immigration from
northern and western Europe while selectively reopening U.S. borders to a huge
influx of minorities from Third World countries. Many of these latter entrants
are unskilled and require welfare support, and those who do work may adversely
affect opportunities for poorer Americans, especially blacks, according to
Brimelow. Because of multicultural programs, he charges, the new immigrants are
not expected to assimilate, and thus they retain their separateness. Illegal
immigration? two to three million entries a year? plus one million legal
immigrants annually are causing, by his reckoning, an "ethnic
revolution," because Asians, Hispanics, Middle Easterners and others shift
America's balance away from the white majority, creating a strife-torn,
multiracial society. Brimelow calls for an end to all illegal immigration, a
drastic cutback in legal immigration, policies favoring skilled immigrants and
elimination of all payments and free public education for illegals and their
children. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library
Journal "Immigration has consequences," Brimelow (a Forbes senior
editor and a contributor to the National Review) interjects repeatedly through
this scattershot, argumentative tract against current immigration policy and
practice. Claiming that the 1965 Immigration Act and later legislation in 1986
and 1990 have worsened a host of economic, political, and social problems in
the United States, Brimelow cites supporters and critics alike of American
immigration policy and his own interpretation of immigration statistics to
disprove commonly held beliefs about immigrants' contributions to America,
which he believes have been overemphasized. Brimelow argues that our
environment is endangered, our public health threatened, our economy strained,
our national unity diluted, and our politics fragmented all by an immigration
policy that is out of control and captive to a ruling "elite," which
he associates with the liberal establishment and political correctness. Though
Brimelow scores some points in his shrill attack, his highly politicized and
provocative language which often relies on ethnic stereotypes makes this book a
polemic guaranteed to rally the faithful and offend most others.
"When
we hear stories about the homelessness in California and elsewhere, why don't
we hear how illegal aliens contribute to the problem? They take jobs
and affordable housing, yet instead of discouraging illegal aliens from
breaking the law, politicians encourage them to come by lavishing free stuff on
them with confiscated dollars from this and future
generations." JACK HELLNER
The
population of illegals nudges up crime rates, pushes down Americans’ wages, and boosts housing prices. But business
groups welcome the extra population because it provides more workers,
customers, and renters to businesses. NEIL MUNRO
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