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发帖数: 38600 | 1 America's Immigration Challenge
Coming to the United States would benefit millions—but policymakers seldom
ask whether their arrival would benefit the United States.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/refugees/41
Donald Trump’s noisy complaints that immigration is out of control are
literally true. Nobody is making conscious decisions about who is wanted and
who is not, about how much immigration to accept and what kind to
prioritize—not even for the portion of U.S. migration conducted according
to law, much less for the larger portion that is not. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 A Chinese immigrant in New York, Dong Lu Chen, bludgeoned his wife to death
with a claw hammer because she was having an affair. He was unashamed,
greeting his teenaged boy at the door in bloody clothes, telling the boy he
had just killed mom. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Edward Pincus let Chen
off with probation—for murder—after an anthropologist testified that, in
Chinese culture, the shame of a man being cuckolded justified murder ... The
female head of the Asian-American Defense and Education Fund, Margaret Fung
, applauded Chen’s light sentence, saying that harsher penalty would “
promote the idea that when people come to America they have to give up their
way of doing things. That is an idea we cannot support.” At least Chen
came to the United States based on his specialized knowledge of nuclear cell
extraction biology. No, I’m sorry—Chen emigrated to the United States
with his entire family when he was fifty years old—fifteen years away from
collecting Social Security—to be a dishwasher.
Two of the most famous murder sprees of the 1990s were also perpetrated by
legal immigrants. The 1993 Long Island Railroad massacre that left six
passengers dead was committed by Jamaican-immigrant Colin Ferguson ... In
1997, Christopher Burmeister, a twenty-seven year old musician, was shot in
the head and killed by Palestinian immigrant Ali Hassan Abu Kamal at the top
of the Empire State Building. Burmeister’s band mate, Matthew Gross, also
took a bullet to the head but—after eight hours of surgery—survived. Gross
now lives in a group home in Montclair, New Jersey, with other brain-
damaged men, taking daily medication for his seizures. The assailant, Abu
Kamal, had immigrated to America with his entire family two month earlier—
at age sixty-eight. It’s a smart move to bring in older immigrants well
past their productive years, so we can start paying out Social Security
right away. | w********e
发帖数: 8594 | 3 这个是真事儿？美国真怪。
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: A Chinese immigrant in New York, Dong Lu Chen, bludgeoned his wife to death
: with a claw hammer because she was having an affair. He was unashamed,
: greeting his teenaged boy at the door in bloody clothes, telling the boy he
: had just killed mom. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Edward Pincus let Chen
: off with probation—for murder—after an anthropologist testified that, in
: Chinese culture, the shame of a man being cuckolded justified murder ... The
: female head of the Asian-American Defense and Education Fund, Margaret Fung
: , applauded Chen’s light sentence, saying that harsher penalty would “
: promote the idea that when people come to America they have to give up their
: way of doing things. That is an idea we cannot support.” At least Chen
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发帖数: 38600 | 4 Immigration share of Total US Population (%)
1970 - 4.7
1980 - 6.2
1990 - 7.9
2000 - 11.1
2010 - 12.9
2013 - 13.7
Size of Immigration Population (Millions)
1970 – 9.6
1980 – 14.1
1990 – 19.8
2000 – 31.1
2010 - 40
2013 – 41.3
http://www.migrationpolicy.org...
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