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Resources on the benefits of immigration

Articles by Reason writers

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No Fruits, No Shirts, No Service

A comprehensive examination of the crucial contributions immigrants make to the U.S. economy, from agriculture to high tech to the massive services sector, by Glenn Garvin (Reason, April 1995)

 

Moving Targets

Restrictions on immigration are as bad an idea as restrictions on internal migration, by Jacob Sullum (Creators Syndicate, 3/00)

 

Reinventing the Border

Will Congress finally reform the INS? by Daniel W. Sutherland (Reason, 4/99)

 

Orphans of Trade

How to help all of Cuba's children, by Nick Gillespie (Reason, 2/00)

 

Muddled Masses

A review of George Borjas' Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy, by Stuart Anderson (Reason, 2/00)

 

The Sierra Club's Immigration Problem

Some environmentalists want closed borders, by Virginia Postrel (Los Angeles Times, 5/15/98)

 

Why Americanization isn't a dirty word

by Cathy Young (Detroit News, 7/8/98)

 

Identity Crisis

If the government is serious about keeping illegal immigrants

from working, a national ID card may be inevitable. By Daniel Sutherland (Reason, 12/97)

 

Contract Killers

Selling out privatization at the INS, by John J. Miller (Reason, 2/97)

 

http://www.reason.com/bi/immigration.html

 

Migration Patterns

A review of Thomas Sowell's Migrations and Cultures: A World View, by John J. Miller (Reason, 5/96)

 

Letter from T. J. Rodgers, Cypress Semiconductor, to Senator Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.) Describes the importance of immigrants in high-tech sector. (Reason, 2/96)

 

Bringing the Border War Home

What will Americans pay to keep out immigrants? by Glenn Garvin (Reason, 10/95)

 

Wretched Refuse

A review of Peter Brimelow's Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, by John J. Miller (Reason, 6/95)

 

Honest Admission

Even Progressive planners knew some migration defies regulation, by Virginia Postrel (Reason 11/95)

 

Sinking Our State

California's immigration initiative is masquerading as an

attack on welfare, by Ron Unz (Reason, 11/94)

 

Memory Lapse

The Clinton administration's refugee policy is a victory for welfare statism--and for Castro, by Virginia Postrel (Reason, 11/94)

 

Let Them In

What to do about the smuggling of illegal immigrants, by Jacob Sullum (Reason, 9/93)

 

Border War

Immigrants want freedom, not a welfare check, by Virginia Postrel (Reason, 10/93)

 

America's Economic Refugees

In an overregulated economy, the best preparation for survival may be a Third World education, by Glenn Garvin (Reason, 11/93)

 

America's Rising Sun

The doomsayers ignore unique strengths that could spark a resurgence in our third century of independence (includes extensive discussion of the benefits of immigration), by Joel Kotkin (Reason, 1/89)

 

The Reason Immigration Page also includes links to other immigration resources after the listing of Reason articles.

Other Immigration Resources:

 

Latest Immigration News from Yahoo! Full Coverage

 

Immigrants and our Economic Prosperity by The National Immigration Forum (3/00)

 

Immigration News Library by immigration law firm Sacks & Kolken; includes lots of practical information and news.

 

Senate Judiciary Committee Report on the 1998 American Competitiveness Act: Contains lots of information on the contributions of immigrants in science and technology.

 

Cutting Immigration Myths Down to Size by Stephen Moore and Stuart Anderson (Cato Institute, 4/22/97)



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