July 30, 2020 By Andrew E. Harrod
America's "unchecked immigration is a threat to our ability to hold together as a people, our ability to maintain the Unum while honoring the Pluribus," writes Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) fellow Jerry Kammer. His new book, Losing Control: How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash that Elected Trump, insightfully documents America's complex, longstanding politics behind a modern immigration morass.
The
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kammer notes that "while I favor
clear limits and enforcement that is both humane and firm, I celebrate
immigrants as a vital part of our national story." Yet, like
centrist-conservative commentators such as Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, and Andrew Sullivan, Kammer emphasizes that American national cohesion demands an immigration "pause." Tellingly, after the landmark 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act,
America's immigrants grew from 9.6 million to about 47 million in 2020,
while illegal alien, about 3.5 million in 1990, peaked in 2007 at 12.2
million...........
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