Huddled Clichés: Exposing the Fraudulent Arguments that Have Opened America's Borders to the World

The author challenges and questions the arguments that have been made in support of continued large-scale immigration to the United States. He suggests that "a large majority of Americans are troubled by current immigration and would like to see it reduced, but they are perplexed and intimidated by the never-ending stream of cliches, myths, catch-phrases and fallacies, disseminated by the news media and other powerful institutions, that are used to promote it. In the following pages I will critically examine a number of these slogans from a variety of angles... I will seek to expose the false premises, the deceptive assertions, the illogical leaps of thought, and the brain-numbing sentiments by which the immigrationists have kept America in thrall." (EXCERPT) Tags: International Migration | Migration Policy | Critique | Immigrants | Developed Countries | Migration | Population Dynamics | Demographic Factors | Population | Population Policy | Social Policy | Policy | Political Factors | Sociocultural Factors | Migrants HTML online version (links to external CSS file): http://jtl.org/auster/Huddled/Huddled.html HTML offline, plain-text, source code (internal CSS, ie: in the code): http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ErABFiYP Web Archive of the above paste: http://web.archive.org/web/20141226061720/http://pastebin.com/ErABFiYP Introduction .................. 1 I. The Economic Argument .................. 7 II. False Parallels with Other Cultures: The Myth of Hispanic Family Values .................. 21 III. The Fallacy of “Conservative” Open Borders .................. 29 IV. The Emotional Case ..................44 Conclusion .................. 57 References .................. 58