Pro-immigration propagandists have a list of claims and clichés they effectively use to silence opposition. Quite often these are nothing more than that-statements heavy on sentiment and light on logic. Yet people believe them because they hear and see them constantly. Roy Beck has rendered the immigration control movement a great service by taking on these assertions and shooting them down, one-by-one, with well-reasoned arguments and support from appropriate authorities.
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This review is from: Re-Charting America's Future: Responses to Arguments Against Stabilizing U.S. Population and Limiting Immigration (Paperback)
Excuse the self-promotional 5-star rating. I had to fill that field to submit these comments. I found my book sitting here lonely without a comment and thought I would offer a few words to help out anybody browsing through these pages.This is not a page-turner book. Rather, it is a handbook designed to help people who believe in lower immigration for the U.S. The book is intended to help such persons so that they can debate or discuss their side of the issue with confidence, credibility and effectiveness -- whether on radio call-in shows, in public forums or just with friends, family or colleagues. Have you ever heard somebody say that this country cannot reduce immigration because WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS? Or have you heard that we have to keep this level of immigration and the massive U.S. population boom it is causing because OUR ECONOMY WOULD COLLAPSE WITHOUT THIS LEVEL OF IMMIGRATION, or WE HAVE TO HAVE ALL THESE FOREIGN WORKERS BECAUSE THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO? Well, this book if full of rejoinders to just such claims. I wrote this book for the national high school debates of 1996. More than 7,000 high schools used this book in preparing the "pro" side of the debate on whether the United States should further restrict immigration. The book is divided into dozens of sections, each with an argument AGAINST restricting immigration to numbers lower than the current level of around 1 million legal immigrants a year. Legal immigration is running more than four times higher than the less than 250,000 annual average during the first 200 years up to 1976. Under each one of those arguments for high immigration, I provide multiple rebuttals from some of the country's key experts on economics, the environment, history and ethics, each with citations to published sources. Congress for years has been charting a course of forced population growth that already has used quadrupled immigration levels to coerce U.S. population from 203 million at the 1st Earth Day in 1970 to nearly 290 million in 2003. Under current immigration policies, our population will hit 404 million in 2050 and 571 million in 2100. The fertility rate of U.S. natives has been below the 2.1 replacement level since 1972. Immigration policies are the only reason Americans must live today in a rapidly increasing population. The President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development in 1996 pointed out that we can re-chart America's future. We don't have to live with constant sprawl, congestion and destruction of natural habitat, farmland and open spaces. We can choose a more stable future by lowering immigration. This book answers all the arguments the high-immigration advocates make for why America should not seek to slow and then halt massive population growth. I hope you find the book as helpful as the thousands of people who have already used it.
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