{"id":3343,"date":"2008-06-29T11:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2008-06-29T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T19:50:20","slug":"the-new-case-against-immigration-both-legal-and-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal And Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Krikorian writes:<\/p>\n<p>My new book is being released this week: <em>The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal<\/em>, published by Sentinel, part of the Penguin Group. <\/p>\n<p>The central point of the book &#8212; the part of the &#8221;Case&#8221; that&#8217;s &#8221;New&#8221; &#8212; is that mass immigration is incompatible with modern society, not because the immigrants are different, but because <em>we<\/em> are. The changes that mark a modern country &#8212; in the economy, society, government, technology, etc. &#8212; are so fundamental that America&#8217;s past success with immigration is no longer relevant. In other words, large-scale immigration was an important phase in our national development, but one we have outgrown. <\/p>\n<p>The book has chapters on sovereignty, assimilation, security, the economy, government spending, and population, as well as a final chapter outlining in some detail what a modern American immigration policy should look like. <\/p>\n<p>David Frum of the conservative American Enterprise Institute has written that the book &#8221;will head any list of the outstanding public policy books of 2008. &#8230; This is a book that will anchor the national conversation on immigration in the months ahead&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mickey Kaus, a liberal journalist and welfare expert has written, &#8221;It is to the immigration debate what <em>Losing Ground<\/em> was to the poverty debate. My copy is already dog-eared.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To see more advance reaction to the book, as well as to read the Introduction, visit <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/NewCase\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\/NewCase\">http:\/\/www.cis.org\/NewCase<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Or, to order, go to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1595230351\/centerforimmigra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1595230351\/centerforimmigra\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1595230351\/centerforimmigra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Krikorian writes: My new book is being released this week: The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal, published by Sentinel, part of the Penguin Group. The central point of the book &#8212; the part of the &#8221;Case&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[9986,9984,9988,29883,9987,9985],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","tag-american-enterprise-institute","tag-american-immigration-policy","tag-david-frum","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-poverty-debate","tag-public-policy-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}