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Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws - Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion (Hardcover, New)
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Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws - Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion (Hardcover, New)
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In 1997 the United States accepted more legal immigrants than all
other countries combined. This large influx of newcomers, however,
has alarmed many Americans. Immigration is a controversial issue
because it intersects with the most contentious issues of our time:
multiculturalism, bilingualism, unemployment, crime, etc. Opinion
polls since 1965 show that a strong majority want to reduce
immigration. Yet our government has refused to respond to the
public's wish. In 1996, Congress scuttled a proposal to reduce
immigration by a third. (Earlier, in 1990, Congress voted to
increase immigration by a whopping 40 percent.) This is all the
more surprising because the United States has had no qualms about
severely restricting immigration in the past. Kenneth Lee explains
why recent immigration policy has failed to reflect the public
opinion by approaching the question from a broad, historical
outlook, and from a focused, contemporary perspective. He traces
several momentous historical changes that have abetted the
pro-immigration block and weakened the restrictionists' clout
(mainly, the rise of conservative economics in the 1970s and the
growing racial liberalism in America). He also examines immigration
policy on a micro-level: detailing the intense lobbying that went
on for the 1990 and 1996 immigration bills, and he also shows how
unlikely players as, for example, Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed,
helped defeat the restrictionist bill in 1996.
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