Alien Nation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Brimelow
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, Immigration or emigration, Economic conditions, Labor, Aliens, illegal
The passage by the United States Congress of the Immigration and Nationality Act in November, 1965, together with rapid population growth and political upheaval in the world beyond U.S. borders, set the stage for a dramatic increase in American immigration levels in the three decades that followed. Until 1991, a pro-immigration consensus united liberals, who valued ethnic and racial diversity, with conservatives, who saw America’s attractiveness to immigrants as a propaganda asset in the Cold War against Soviet Communism. When the Soviet Union collapsed and the American economy slid...
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