TITLE

Demography as destiny: Immigration and Schools

AUTHOR(S)

Harrington-Lueker, Donna; Schroeder, Ken

PUB. DATE

January 1991

SOURCE

Education Digest;Jan1991, Vol. 56 Issue 5, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

This article discusses the history of the immigration to the U.S. There are eleven million immigrants who have come to the country from 1970 to 1990. Economic opportunity, religious freedom, self-determination, political upheaval and flight from oppressions are some of the reasons for the immigration to the country. Because of the soaring number of immigrants, the government put up measures to restrict the entry of immigrants. One of these measures is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that ended the national-origins quota system. However, the act allowed kinship ties to people who are already in the U.S. to determine who could immigrate. In 1991, the Congress will face proposals to revise the legal immigration policy. In the House, Representative Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) is pushing the Family Unity and Employment Opportunity Immigration Act. The bill retains the family preference system but grafts onto it a far-flung proposal of U.S. labor needs. Others also see the competitive advantage of immigration policy that takes the labor market as its starting point., including demographer Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute. He argues that the U.S. should capitalize on its strength as a pluralistic nation and commit itself to an immigration policy tied closely to social and industrial needs.

ACCESSION #

9106101345

Tags: UNITED States -- Emigration & immigration;  EMIGRATION & immigration -- Government policy;  EMIGRATION & immigration law -- United States;  UNITED States. Congress;  LABOR market;  UNITED States. Immigration & Nationality Act;  WATTENBERG, Ben;  UNITED States. Immigration & Nationality Act Amendments of 1965

 

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