Reihan Salam's Powerful Case Against Open Borders
By Jerry Kammer on October 18, 2018
One side of our national immigration debate is led by activist liberals whose principal concern is the plight of immigrants — many of them unskilled and poor — who seek sanctuary from the legal consequences of violating U.S. immigration law. The immigration coverage in The New Yorker and the reporting of such New York Times reporters as Nina Bernstein, Liz Robinson, Marc Lacey, and Julie Hirschfeld Davis has provided a sympathetic, cosmopolitan forum for such views.
Now Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review, has written a book that powerfully presents the other side of the debate. Salam challenges the notion that unrestrained immigration is such a positive force that only the bigoted oppose it. Provocatively titled Melting Pot or Civil War, it warns that unless we correct the chaotic mismanagement of our disjointed immigration system, we risk deepening divisions of class and race to the point that they will shatter civil society and plunge us into fratricidal violence.
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