How many is too many? : the progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States / Philip Cafaro.

From the stony streets of Boston to the rail lines of California, from General Relativity to Google, one of the surest truths of our history is the fact that America has been built by immigrants. The phrase itself has become a steadfast campaign line, a motto of optimism and good will, and indeed it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cafaro, Philip, 1962- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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Physical Description:305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Good people, hard choices, and an inescapable question
  • Immigration by the numbers
  • The wages of mass immigration
  • Winners and losers
  • Growth, or what is an economy for?
  • Population matters
  • Environmentalists' retreat from demography
  • Defusing America's population bomb or cooking the Earth
  • Solutions
  • Objections
  • Conclusion.