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Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders | 
 enlarge | Author: Jason L. Riley
Publisher: Gotham
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 1592403492
Dewey Decimal Number: 325.73
EAN: 9781592403493
ASIN: 1592403492
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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A conservative columnist makes an eye-opening case for why immigration improves the lives of Americans and is important for the future of the country.
Separating fact from myth in todays heated immigration debate, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board contends that foreign workers play a vital role in keeping America prosperous; that maintaining an open-border policy is consistent with free-market economic principals; and that the arguments put forward by opponents of immigration ultimately dont hold up to scrutiny.
In the course of his fourteen years at the Journal, Riley has covered immigrations impact on our economy, our culture and our politics. He is an outspoken advocate of free and flexible labor markets, and in this timely book he argues that our open-immigration policy goes a long way toward explaining the difference between robust economic growth in the United States and stagnation in places like Europe.
In lucid, jargon-free prose, Riley takes on the most common anti-immigrant complaints, including claims that todays immigrants overpopulate the United States, steal jobs, depress wages, dont assimilate, and pose an undue threat to homeland security. As the 2008 presidential election approaches with immigration reform on the front burner, Let Them In is essential reading for liberals and conservatives alike who want to bring an informed perspective to the discussion.
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 Well thought-out, convincing, and conversational August 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Let Them In" is a well-thought out, convincing, and conversational case for reform. Though not presenting a fully-developed policy change, Riley persuades the reader to see things from his perspective. He calmly points out the fallacies and contradictions of many anti-immigration groups.
Proposing an open borders plan is a radical step, but as each objection rises, Riley answers it with logic and evidence. He explains how time and time again, immigrants are not job-stealers, criminals, or good-for-nothings. An unfortunate omission from his excellent critique of anti-immigration arguments is an answer to the question: "would immigrants' behavior would be altered if the borders were opened?"
Yet Riley's stated objectives are to "offer a rebuttal to some of the more common anti-immigration arguments" and to "put today's debate into perspective." His clear analysis fulfills both of these goals, and, though we may be hesitant to admit it, the weight of the facts is in Riley's favor.
 Read it with a grain of salt July 23, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Jason Riley, a writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page, presents a brief for unlimited immigration from Mexico to the U.S. While Let Them In is well-written and thought-provoking, I remain far from convinced unlimited immigration is really the best thing for America and for my state of California. Riley is certainly right on one thing: the U.S. cannot simply eliminate immigration completely. But in conceding that point, I do not therefore admit that unregulated mass immigration is a good thing. Riley nowhere discusses the cost of schooling illegal children, or the fact that many American universities (unfairly) allow in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. I've seen studies by economists that illegal immigration costs California billions of dollars. It would be a mistake in my judgment to take Let Them In as the final word on the subject.
I also don't think Riley appreciates the cultural aspects of mass Hispanic immigration. That is what drives most of the angry calls to the talk radio hosts that he criticizes in the book. Certainly, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity (or Lou Dobbs, etc..) are not above criticism, but a free-marketeer like Riley should understand they are responding to popular demand. A majority of Americans --70% in a major poll done by the Council of Foreign Relations-- want immigration reduced or eliminated. Riley doesn't seem to understand--or to even want to understand-- this frustration. In a democratic system of government is it remarkable that politicians want to at least pretend to support their constituents' demands on this subject? Nor is it unreasonable for talk show hosts to tailor their show to the desires of their listeners.
For all my criticism, I still recommend reading the book. Just don't take it as the final word on the subject.
 TRIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!! July 21, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
Anyone who buys this book should take a real hard look at what is going on in this country. As the wife of a tradesman I know first hand that these people ARE taking jobs from American citizens. They suppress wages and rob hard working legal citizens of their right to work. This book is a joke. Get out of your ivory towers and open your eyes people.
 Let's Reenslave the Black Race! July 16, 2008
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
For a long time I have been against reinstating the lapsed institution of black slavery, partly because it just felt like it wouldn't be fair to Black Americans.
But now the enlightened African-American Wall Street Journal writer Jason Riley has shown me the light. Thanks to him, I have finally come to understand that ALL restrictions intended to artificially inflate American wages, whether those restrictions take the form of Border Security or the disgusting pox of Child Labor Laws, are a sin against the free market and actually hurt all of us (including African-Americans) by driving up the cost of consumer goods and wreaking havoc upon the corporate profits that are so essential for economic growth.
Of course, because we live in a repressive environment, Jason Riley has been forced to never quite come out and say we should bring back the economy jumpstarting institution of slavery.
But recently on the "Colbert Report", he came bravely close to the openly challenging the Abolitionist Status Quo.
You see, Stephen Colbert noted Riley's opposition to the minimum wage and then said "I see what you're saying, we can take people from a poor country and pay them 26 cents per an hour" . Then Jason Riley, to his credit, stood up to Colbert's attempt to scare weak-kneed American workers by noting that it would actually be good for Colbert and good for America if workers were only paid 26 cents an hour because it supposedly would allow companies to charge less for their goods and services, and most importantly because it drives up Corporate Profits.
Now 26 cents an hour isn't quite the blessed nirvana of 0 cents an hour that would be achieved if we brought back slavery; a nirvana where wages would add nothing to the price of goods and take not one cent away from corporate profits.
Nonetheless, given that Jason Riley has no objection to the cost of labor being driven down to 26 cents an hour, I see no reason whatsoever why he would oppose it being driven down to 0 cents an hour.
After all, Colbert even said after Riley defended driving down wages to 26 cents an hour that "We could call it indentured servitude", and Riley said not one word in opposition to the notion that Colbert's historical analogy was accurate and valid.
Also, in his entire life Riley has never uttered a peep of protest against the upper class immigrants who have recently started entering America with their slaves in tow.
Yet another advantage of bringing back slavery is that in the same way that (as Riley has noted) Latino immigration into Los Angeles actually reduced crime in that city by replacing the high crime blacks with somewhat less high crime Latinos, the reinstatement of slavery would reduce crime by placing the lamentably crime-prone black race under the constant watch of overseers.
And with bringing back slavery you wouldn't just be moving members of the crime prone black race from one part of the Country to another (which does the average American absolutely no good whatsoever) while actually increasing the overall amount of crime through the importation of Hispanics with a higher crime rate than the average American.
Instead, the only effect of bringing back black slavery would be the reduction of crime ALL OVER THE COUNTRY through the neutralization of the black population's disgusting criminal propensities.
In conclusion, I want to thank the Wall Street Journal for bringing to the World so original and unorthodox a thinker as Jason Riley. Other African-Americans may whine and moan like a bunch of tree monkeys about how the Latinos are "stealing" their jobs. But not Jason Riley! He understands that when Blacks hold out for the minimum wage, they are committing a stupid, shortsighted, and uppity sin against the natural economic order of things.
And worst of all they are committing a sin against the very Free Market that provides each and every one of us with Food, Drink, and Life itself.
If only we could round up blacks who refuse slave wage employment into camps and kill them with poison gas.
Read this book then "discuss" immigration. July 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is not perfect, but it is important that anyone who wants to engage in an informed discussion of immigration read it. Guess what? There is a case to be made for immigration, and Riley makes it. For example, he points out that most assumptions about the economic costs of immigration are wrong. His discussion of the so-called "crime" of illegal immigration is particularly instructive. It is interesting that the reviews that give one star clearly indicate that the reviewer has not read the book. Nothing could more illustrate the problems in "discussing" immigration.
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