• Immigrants are taking significant advantage of affirmative action programs originally set up to benefit disadvantaged native-born minorities. This is the conclusion of Washington-based researcher Jim Robb in his book, Affirmative Action for Immigrants: The Entitlement Nobody Wanted.
• The heart of the problem, says Robb, is that affirmative action favors certain races and ethnic groups, irrespective of their country of origin. Thus a naturalized Asian Indian is counted the same, under affirmative action, as a native-born black American.
• Today about 75 percent of all legal immigrants living in the U.S. are Hispanic, Asian, and black, the groups covered by affirmative action. Many of these immigrants are not citizens, but for all practical purposes their lack of citizenship poses no problem to obtaining employment—and benefitting from affirmative action. One reason is a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act which outlaws hiring preference for citizens.
• Robb states his amazement that the government officials he interviewed for the book had little understanding of the legality or extent of affirmative action for immigrants. This has led to a situation which no one can justify, i.e., preferential treatment for newcomers with no historic claims on America.
• There is now a growing national debate on whether to abolish affirmative action or change it, Robb argues that no matter what we do with it, preferences for immigrants must end.

• Peter Brimelow describes his nationally acclaimed book, Alien Nation, as a tool kit of arguments for immigration control. That indeed it is.
• He affirms that patriotic Americans should go on the offensive and force immigration promoters (he terms them “alienists”) to justify their position. Specifically, says Brimelow, the burden of proof should be on them to justify what current immigration policies are doing, namely the transforming of America into a Third World country. If this is what they want, it is their motives that need explaining.
• Brimelow also maintains that it is not “racism” for European-Americans to wish to remain the nation’s majority. If they lose that position, the nation will lose its Western character and continuity with the past. Without this anchor of stability, insecurities among all groups will rise, and racial and ethnic tensions will increase.
• On economics, Brimelow avoids the endless statistical arguments on as to whether immigration is an economic benefit. He simply points out that we can prosper without massive immigration. Even arch immigration promoter Julian Simon, notes Brimelow, conceded this point.
• Brimelow concludes by observing that cutting immigration presents far less danger than continuing it. Why, he asks, should we take the risk?
• Brimelow marshals an impressive array of demographic and economic data to press this case, stressing in particular that today’s immigrants differ significantly—for the worse—from those who came in earlier days.” - Peter Skerry, Commentary.

by Robert Howard and Wayne Lutton
16 pages, paperback, published 2003
$1.00
 
    Illegal alien advocates say that borders don’t matter in a “globalized” world. Actually, globalization may make them matter all the more. One example is the increased mobility of disease brought about by increased movement of people around the globe.
    Since the days of Ellis Island, public health authorities have recognized the need to screen foreigners for disease who enter our county. Today, thanks to our wide open borders, many foreigners—healthy and unhealthy—enter the United States with no screening at all.
    Immigration and the Public Health Crisis by Robert Howard and Wayne Lutton document the threat to public health posed by illegal immigration, as well by some legal immigrants and visa holders. This threat, the authors stress, is not a future possibility. Imported diseases are afflicting Americans, and immigrants, legal and illegal, impose a growing cost on our health care system.
    The SARS epidemic of 2003 showed the potential of disease in the modern world to spread from country to country. Secure borders, Howard and Lutton argue effectively, are a vital defense.