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Immigrants and the economy | |
Immigrants take American jobs | p. 3 |
Immigrants compete with low-skilled workers and drive down wages | p. 11 |
Unions oppose immigration because it harms the working class | p. 30 |
Immigrants don't pay taxes | p. 36 |
Immigrants are a drain on the economy | p. 39 |
Immigrants send most of what they earn out of the country in the form of remittances | p. 46 |
Immigrants and the law | |
The rules apply to everyone, so new immigrants need to follow them just as immigrants in the past did | p. 53 |
The country is being overrun by illegal immigrants | p. 58 |
The United States has a generous refugee policy | p. 64 |
Immigration and race | |
The United States is a melting pot that has always welcomed immigrants from all over the world | p. 77 |
Since we are all the descendants of immigrants here, we all start on equal footing | p. 91 |
Today's immigrants threaten the national culture because they are not assimilating | p. 103 |
Today's immigrants are not learning English, and bilingual education just adds to the problem | p. 110 |
How have U.S. policies created immigration? | |
Immigrants only come here because they want to enjoy our higher standard of living | p. 121 |
Case study : the Philippines | p. 133 |
The debate at the turn of the millennium | |
The American public opposes immigration, and the debate in Congress reflects that | p. 149 |
The overwhelming victory of Proposition 187 in California shows that the public opposes immigration | p. 162 |
Immigration is a problem | p. 166 |
Countries need to control who goes in and out | p. 171 |
We need to protect our borders to prevent criminals and terrorists from entering the country | p. 180 |
If people break our laws by immigrating illegally, they are criminals and should be deported | p. 184 |
The problems this book raises are so huge that there's nothing we can do about them | p. 188 |
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