FROM ISSUE NUMBER 124 - SUMMER 1996 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
How immigration harms minorities
THE popular press tends to portray proposals to reduce yearly immigration quotas as pitting whites against nonwhites. Yet they are overlooking the fact that the downsides of immigration often fall more heavily and more directly on nonwhites, i.e., on blacks, Asians, and Latino Americans. As one Mexican American put it, when immigration’s negative impacts come, “We get hit first.”
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