Terrorism | Immigrants Enhance National Security

[The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have] rekindled in some Americans prejudices, suspicions and a wariness of “them” as opposed to “us.” Many who now look askance at certain ethnic or religious groups confess that their reactions are almost involuntary, knee-jerk responses to descriptions of the perpetrators of the attacks.

We are witnessing the effects of a primordial animal emotion: fear. But the insecurity gripping the nation today does not result in fight or flight so much as it does finger-pointing. Compounding the problem is the fact that the Bush...

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