Let Them In_ The Case for Open Borders - Jason L. Riley [0]
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE - POPULATION: DOOM AND DEMOGRAPHY
CHAPTER TWO - ECONOMICS: HELP WANTED
CHAPTER THREE - WELFARE: THE MEASURE OF A MANUEL
CHAPTER FOUR - ASSIMILATION: THE NATIVISTS ARE RESTLESS
CHAPTER FIVE - POLITICS: PUP TENT REPUBLICANISM
CHAPTER SIX - HOMELAND SECURITY: FORTRESS AMERICA?
CONCLUSION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Acknowledgements
INDEX
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FOR NAOMI
America is really many Americas. We call ourselves a nation of immigrants, and that’s truly what we are. We have drawn people from every corner of the Earth. We’re composed of virtually every race and religion, and not in small numbers, but large. We have a statue in New York Harbor that speaks of this—a statue of a woman holding a torch of welcome to those who enter our country to become Americans. She has greeted millions upon millions of immigrants to our country. She welcomes them still. She represents our open door.
All of the immigrants who came to us brought their own music, literature, customs, and ideas. And the marvelous thing, a thing of which we’re proud, is they did not have to relinquish these things in order to fit in. In fact, what they brought to America became American. And this diversity has more than enriched us; it has literally shaped us.— RONALD REAGAN
Someone’s knockin’ at the door,
Somebody’s ringin’ the bell.
Do me a favor.
Open the door, and let ’em in.
— PAUL MCCARTNEY
INTRODUCTION
The magazines and the illustrators are long gone and largely forgotten, but the images endure. Like the 1903 print from Judge, a popular political magazine of the period. It’s titled, “The Immigrant: Is he an Acquisition or a Detriment?” and depicts a hulking, exhausted new arrival to America’s shores. He wears ragged clothing and lumbers inland with his wife, all their possessions