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Article: Reforming immigration wisely.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2004
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Byline: Philip Gold, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
This is a clear and rational little book - no small accomplishment when the subject is immigration. Otis Graham, a retired history professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, favors restriction. But "Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis" is less a policy tome or a polemic than a fine exercise in simply telling it like it was.
Mr. Graham begins by debunking the cliche that America is a "nation of immigrants." We never have been. The first Europeans came as colonists, not immigrants. Ever since, the vast majority of us have been native-born.
The author then ...