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The "golden door" has been shut and the homeless are being "tost" back into the tempest. Indeed, as West (2003) emphasizes, "Unless the nation decides to return to a controlled legal immigration and again values and asserts assimilation, an ethnic and racial 'apartheid' is likely in many areas not just in California. Racial and ethnic separatism is a potent virus. If we fail to recognize now how powerful it is, your children and their children are likely to learn about that to their distress" (emphasis added) (56).
Conclusion
Like violent crime and child pornography, no politicians today wants to appear "soft" on highly sensitive issues such as illegal immigration. The "get tough" response that has emerged following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has not helped the situation either, but the Minutemen and the National Guard have not been able to stop the flood of illegal immigrants to the United States, and the plans to build a wall along the Mexican-U.S. border smack of Berlin during the Cold War. One of the most significant findings of the research was that people in the United States always tend to view the current waves of immigration in a negative light, while looking back at similar waves of...
Given the fundamental shifts in American demographics that have resulted from the most recent waves, it is reasonable to assume that this same process will take place in the years to come as the illegals who are already here carve out new lives for themselves and their families in spite of the laws intended to stop them, just as their predecessors have done for generations in the great melting pot of the United States.
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West, Woody.…
Works Cited
Bushnell, David. (2006). Emigration. Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. 24 May 2006 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-60830.
Edwards, James R. (2002, June 27). Grading the Hill on Illegal Immigration. The Washington Times A21.
Embracing Illegals." (2005, July 18). Business Week Online. 23 May 2006 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_29/b3943001_mz001.htm.
Gresham, Thomas. (2004, April 13). "Illegal Immigration Will Pose Threat to American Prosperity." Insight on the News 4.
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