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The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows inHeaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy--and positively bad news for the country's poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country's leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the benefits of immigration have been greatly exaggerated and that, if we allow immigration to continue unabated and unmodified, we are supporting an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country, who are disproportionately minorities, to the richest. In the course of the book, Borjas carefully analyzes immigrants' skills, national origins, welfare use, economic mobility, and impact on the labor market, and he makes groundbreaking use of new data to trace current trends in ethnic segregation. He also evaluates the implications of the evidence for the type of immigration policy the that U.S. should pursue. Some of his findings are dramatic: Despite estimates that range into hundreds of billions of dollars, net annual gains from immigration are only about $8 billion. In dragging down wages, immigration currently shifts about $160 billion per year from workers to employers and users of immigrants' services. Immigrants today are less skilled than their predecessors, more likely to re-quire public assistance, and far more likely to have children who remain in poor, segregated communities. Borjas considers the moral arguments against restricting immigration and writes eloquently about his own past as an immigrant from Cuba. But he concludes that in the current economic climate--which is less conducive to mass immigration of unskilled labor than past eras--it would be fair and wise to return immigration to the levels of the 1970s (roughly 500,000 per year) and institute policies to favor more skilled immigrants.

Recent research on the far right has remained surprisingly silent on the question of capitalism. This article takes another approach. It suggests that we must understand the far right emerging out of the economic: out of the dynamics of capitalism itself. It does so through an intellectual portrait of the financial journalist Peter Brimelow, one of the most influential proponents of far-right nativist politics and a self-described “godfather of the Alt Right.” It follows his passage from financial journalist to anti-immigrant firebrand through his encounters with neoliberal luminaries Peter Bauer, Julian Simon, and Milton Friedman. Rather than for an ethnostate, I argue Brimelow is best seen as making the case for an “ethno-economy,” with immigration determined by a racialized hierarchy of human capital.

Press \"ONE\" for Englishexamines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. Deborah Schildkraut shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views. Using insights from American political thought and intellectual history, she highlights several components of that identity and shows how they are brought to bear on debates about language. Her analysis expands the range of factors typically thought to explain attitudes in such policy areas, emphasizing in particular the role that civic republicanism's call for active and responsible citizenship plays in shaping opinion on language issues. Using focus groups and survey data, Schildkraut develops a model of public conceptions of what it means to be American and demonstrates the complex ways in which people draw on these conceptions when forming and explaining their views. In so doing she illustrates how focus group methodology can help yield vital new insights into opinion formation. With the rise in the use of ballot initiatives to implement language policies, understanding opinion formation in this policy area has become imperative. This book enhances our understanding of this increasingly pressing concern, and points the way toward humane, effective, and broadly popular language policies that address the realities of American demographics in the twenty-first century while staying true to the nation's most revered values.

According to CBS News' \"Political Hotsheet,\" [Peter Brimelow] said during the panel that immigration -- both legal and illegal -- was, along with multiculturalism, damaging America by creating a \"Spanish-speaking underclass parallel to the African-American underclass.\" He described Hispanic immigrants as \"completely dysfunctional\" and declared the state of California as \"rapidly turning into a Hispanic slum\" that is \"totally overrun by barrios of illegal immigrants.\" Brimelow shares his beliefs on the website he founded -- VDARE.com. The site is named in honor of Virginia Dare, the first child born to English settlers in America before all that dreadful race mixing and diluting of bloodlines occurred. He writes books like his best-seller \"Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster.\" And he also gives speeches and appears on panels like the one in which he participated recently at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) titled: \"The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the Pursuit of Diversity Is Weakening the American Identity.\"

English Canada on the other hand faces a harder task because it is still driven by the unwise ideologies that gave rise to our flawed Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that are entrenched in the minds of much of the establishment.

The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy--and positively bad news for the country's poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country's leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the benefits of immigration have been greatly exaggerated and that, if we allow immigration to continue unabated and unmodified, we are supporting an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country, who are disproportionately minorities, to the richest.

\"Alien Nation\" is about immigration and how current U.S. immigration policy is, in [Peter Brimelow]'s view, likely to destroy the United States. A warning: Brimelow is obviously an expert on this subject - but not an objective expert. Boy, does he write with an opinion. This is refreshing, but one has to constantly ask, was his strong opinion formed on an objective reading of the facts, or are his \"facts\" shaped by his opinion. The typical citizen has to read with some skepticism, but Brimelow makes a strong case for his pessimistic views.

He points out in his article that the sale would make sense because there are more Mexicans in the U.S. than there are in Baja. He says in 1990 more than 4.3 million Mexicans lived here, legally and illegally, while Baja has only 2 million Mexicans. He has a point. This would be a convenience to Mexicans in Baja who are thinking about sneaking into the U.S. Under this plan, they wouldn't have to go to all that trouble because they'd already be here. [Peter Brimelow] mentioned to me that the U.S. has a history of buying up territory anyway. \"That's basically how the U.S. grew, actually,\" he said. He mentioned the Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, and that the U.S. once tried to buy Cuba. He wonders if it would be cheaper and easier to buy off the Cuban leaders than to keep running the economic embargo.