Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case

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Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders

â€œA clarion call to everyone who cares about the American nation and
every person who calls it home.â€ â€”J.D. VANCE, author of Hillbilly Elegy

Why would a son of immigrants call for tighter restrictions on immigration?

For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would want to restrict immigration. Anyone motivated by compassion and egalitarianism would choose open, or nearly-open, bordersâ€”or so the argument goes. Now, Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, turns this argument on its head.

In this deeply researched but also deeply personal book, Salam shows why uncontrolled immigration is bad for everyone, including people like his family. Our current system has intensified the isolation of our native poor, and risks ghettoizing the children of poor immigrants. It ignores the challenges posed by the declining demand for less-skilled labor, even as it exacerbates ethnic inequality and deepens our political divides.

If we continue on our current course, in which immigration policy serves wealthy insiders who profit from cheap labor, and cosmopolitan extremists attack the legitimacy of borders, the rise of a new ethnic underclass is inevitable. Even more so than now, class politics will be ethnic politics, and national unity will be impossible.

Salam offers a solution, if we have the courage to break with the past and craft an immigration policy that serves our long-term national interests. Rejecting both militant multiculturalism and white identity politics, he argues that limiting total immigration and favoring skilled immigrants will combat rising inequality, balance diversity with assimilation, and foster a new nationalism that puts the interests of all Americansâ€”native-born and foreign-bornâ€”first.

Country	USA
Author	Reihan Salam
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780735216280
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Sentinel
Manufacturer	Sentinel
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2018-09-25
Publisher	Sentinel
ReleaseDate	2018-09-25
Studio	Sentinel

Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders

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