“A clarion call to everyone who cares about the American nation and

everyone who calls it home.” -J.D. VANCE, writer of Hillbilly Elegy

As to why would a son of immigrants call for tighter restrictions in immigration?

For too long, liberals have recommended that just cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would want to restrict immigration. Anyone motivated by compassion and egalitarianism would choose open, or nearly-open, borders-or therefore the argument goes. Right now, Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi about Melting Pot or Civil Battle?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open up Borders immigrants, becomes this debate on its head.

In this deeply explored but also deeply personal publication, Salam displays why uncontrolled immigration is usually harmful to everyone, including people like his family. Our current program provides intensified the isolation of our native poor, and dangers ghettoizing the children of poor immigrants. It ignores the challenges posed with the declining demand for less-skilled labor, even as it exacerbates cultural inequality and deepens our politics divides.

If we continue on our current program, where immigration policy acts rich insiders who benefit from inexpensive labor, and cosmopolitan extremists strike the legitimacy of edges, the rise of a new ethnic underclass is certainly inevitable. A lot more so than right now, course politics will end up being cultural politics, and nationwide unity will become impossible.

Salam offers a solution, if we’ve the courage to break with the past and art an immigration policy that serves our long-term nationwide interests. Rejecting both militant multiculturalism and white identity politics, he argues that restricting total immigration and favoring competent immigrants will fight rising inequality, balance variety with assimilation, and foster a new nationalism that puts the interests of most Americans-native-born and foreign-born-first.