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Immigration : debating the issues / edited by Nicholas Capaldi.

Other author/creatorCapaldi, Nicholas.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoAmherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1997.
Description324 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Contemporary issues
Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.) ^A276098
Contents Why is there a debate about immigration? / Nicholas Capaldi -- Time to rethink immigration? / Peter Brimelow -- Alien rumination / Peter H. Schuck -- National origins quotas should be retained (1964) / Marion Moncure Duncan -- A nation of immigrants / John F. Kennedy -- Immigration law: a bird's-eye view / Nadia Nedzel -- "The worst job in the world?" / an interview with Doris Meissner by Claudia Dreifus -- Still an open door?: U.S. immigration policy and the American economy / Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. and Stephen Moore -- Know the flow / George J. Borjas -- Peaceful invasions: immigration and changing America / Leon F. Bouvier -- New Americans by choice: political perspectives of Latino immigrants / Harry Pachon and Louis DeSipio -- The disuniting of America / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Along the Tortilla Curtain / Pete Hamill -- Scapegoating immigrants / Elizabeth Martinez -- Immigration and the aliens among us / Richard John Neuhaus -- One nation, one common language / Linda Chavez -- "English only" / ACLU briefing paper -- The importance of learning English: a national survey of Hispanic parents / Center for Equal Opportunity -- Bilingual education in Massachusetts: the emperor has no clothes / Christine H. Rossell and Keith Baker -- Bilingual education: separating fact from fiction / Richard V. López -- The index of leading immigration indicators / John J. Miller and Stephen Moore.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 97006542
ISBN1573921424 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JV6465 .I475 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold