[lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 18 08:12:24 PDT 2006


Michael Hoover wrote:


>as a "receiver," u.s. has at times
>excluded persons solely on basis of numbers assumed to be upper limit
>beyond which neither economy nor society could absorb

As Douglas Massey points out in the interview I just posted a link to, the legal quota for Mexican immigrants into the U.S. is 20,000 a year - the same as Nepal and Botswana. That's ludicrous.

Doug



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