Kowalski on Immigration Reform

An excerpt from “The Moral Physics of Immigration” by Dan Kowalski:

Not everyone is flocking to our shores and borders, despite what Lou Dobbs and Tom Tancredo say. The fact is that 98 percent of the world’s people are “stayers,” content (more or less) to live and die where they were born. But immigration law is about fear, not facts. Prior to the 1870s, we had no immigration law at all-de facto “open borders.” Then we began to bar criminals, prostitutes and the Chinese (the Chinese Exclusion Act lasted until 1943), and in the 1920s we enacted, for the first time, numerical quotas.

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