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

“A clarion call to everyone who cares about the American nation and

everyone who telephone calls it house.” -J.D. VANCE, writer of Hillbilly Elegy

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

For too much time, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would like to restrict immigration. Anyone motivated by compassion and egalitarianism would choose open, or nearly-open, borders-or so the argument goes. Now, Reihan Salam, the kid of Bangladeshi about Melting Pot or Civil Battle?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders immigrants, transforms this argument on its head.

Within this deeply explored but also deeply personal publication, Salam displays why uncontrolled immigration is definitely harmful to everyone, including people like his family. Our current system has intensified the isolation of our indigenous poor, and dangers ghettoizing the kids of poor immigrants. It ignores the challenges posed by the declining demand for less-skilled labor, even while it exacerbates cultural inequality and deepens our politics divides.

If we keep on our current program, in which immigration policy acts rich insiders who profit from cheap labor, and cosmopolitan extremists attack the legitimacy of borders, the rise of a new ethnic underclass can be inevitable. Even more so than right now, course politics will end up being cultural politics, and nationwide unity will end up being impossible.

Salam offers a solution, if we have the courage to break with days gone by and art an immigration plan that acts our long-term national passions. Rejecting both militant multiculturalism and white identification politics, he argues that restricting total immigration and favoring experienced immigrants will combat rising inequality, stability diversity with assimilation, and foster a new nationalism that puts the interests of most Americans-native-born and foreign-born-first.