Two Main Objections to Immigration Restriction Unconvincing
Published:
Wed, Aug 16th 2017 @ 3:03 pm EDT by Eric Ruark
There are two fundamental arguments put forward in support of mass immigration. Both treat immigrants not as actors with human agency or individual traits, but as abstract commodities to be used to achieve particular ideological or economic ends.
The first type fall under the category of what we can label Historical Determinism. These arguments are variants of the premise that “America is a nation of immigrants,” which has as its conclusion the assertion that America’s immigrant history precludes any restrictions on legal immigration in the present.
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