The Most Common Arguments against Immigration and Why They're Wrong
About this ebook
The Most Common Arguments Against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong contains the 15 most common arguments against immigration and Cato Institute scholar Alex Nowrasteh’s responses to them.
Immigration has been the most hotly debated public policy issue in the United States since Donald Trump entered the Republican primary in mid-2015. A new Biden Administration has an opportunity to reverse the anti-immigration actions of the Trump Administration and expand legal immigration.
From economics to crime, terrorism, cultural assimilation, and the voting habits of immigrants, Nowrasteh considers the most common arguments against immigration and rejects them using sound reasoning and evidence.
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About the author
Alex Nowrasteh is the director of immigration studies and the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Washington Post, among other outlets. His peer‐reviewed academic publications have appeared in The World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economic Affairs, the Fletcher Security Review, the Journal of Bioeconomics, and Public Choice. Nowrasteh is the coauthor of the book Wretched Refuse? The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions (Cambridge University Press).
