Submitted by Tony hammond, Apr 6, 2007 08:01

The above article reads like a weakly constructed essay which a student is forced to write as an exercise in face of common sense reality. Here, we see a paper which is is full of fallicies about immigration.
The author writes about 'immigration' as one lump - a near universal good whatever it consists of , its scope or volume. She quotes many duboius and marginal statistics, which are meant to show these new workers will not compete for jobs which Americans want, and instead magically busy themselves as forms of domestic servants for the rich and corporations?? and other 'alternatives' to competing in the labour market.

Commonsense is out of the window. Mass immigration creating huge effects for citizens, is confused with normal levels of immigration which people accept as good and natural.

We have of course historic experience in New York of MASS immigration.

The 1965 Immigration Act created a mass immigration effect, which enabled huge numbers of unskilled immigrants from alien cultures into the city.

The New York nightmare began.
The costs of public services and taxes rose sharply, High income US citizens fled the massive changes in the city, the rising unemployment and crime. Workers were being shed anyway, with the decline in manufacturing, coupled with the after-effects of sharp inflation which created a loss of competiveness in many industries.

What we got was a nightmare that lasted a generation - a city divided across ghettos and gangs plagued with crime, guns, drugs and danger and disease.

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