Immigrants and Immigration - Roy Becks The Case Against Immigration :: Argumentative Persuasive Essays

Roy Becks The Case Against Immigration        One of the more remarkable aspects of the continuing debate over American immigration policy is that the kingdoms liberal elites seem, ever so gradually, to be finally catching up with the people. For years opinion polls have shown that a large major(ip)ity of the American people, of all political persuasions and all ethnic backgrounds, want less(prenominal) immigration. Yet year after year immigrants continue to flood crosswise our borders as opinion molders, elected officials, business executives, and professional eggheads insist that bulk immigration is really beneficial and its dangers are much exaggerated by nativists and racists.        Only in the last couple of years have a few sustains been published that dissent from that view, and the appearance of these books, published by major New York houses, suggests that the elites are finally beginning to grasp what uncontrolled immigrat ion means for the people and the country they rule. What began as a popular take issue against elite policies and preferences has now started influencing the elites themselves, even if the elites still like to imagine that they purview of it first.        Roy Becks *The Case Against Immigration* is the approximately recent example of a book published by a major publisher that challenges the conventional science about immigration (Peter Brimelows *Alien Nation,* published last year, was the first), and although Beck has been actively in use(p) in the movement to restrict immigration for some years, he has through so as a card-carrying liberal. A former newspaperman in Washington, DC who has been profoundly involved in the kind activism of the Methodist Church, Beck has seen at first hand what immigration means for ordinary Americans, not only underclass blacks entirely also middle and working class whites. His book is an exhaustive authentication of the evil consequences that immigration is causing for these groups as well as for the nation as a whole.        Becks liberalism, however, is by no means of the polemical or partisan variety, and the impression that his book gives is that he is a man deeply and genuinely concerned about the injustices endured by the real victims of immigration. He avoids most of the cultural arguments against immigration that conservatives tend to use, his main concern focusing kind of on the economic effects of immigration on workers and on the social consequences for those Americans whose jobs