| Immigration Nation
Jacoby, Tamar
Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006, v85,#6,pp50-65
The author argues that the majority of Americans want a combination of tougher enforcement and "earned citizenship" for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. He says taht the best way to regain control on illegal immigrant is to liberalize U.S. laws by expanding quotas and establishing a guest-worker program more in line with the half-million new workers now needed each year to keep the U.S. eocnomy growing. Acknowledging the serious fears that immigrants will not or cannot assimilate, he says that eliminating "the vast illegal world of second-class noncitizens" would remove barriers to Americanization. Tamar Jacoby is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American.
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