Will our lawmakers learn anything from this...

The Center for Immigration Studies hopes so.

The French Riots and U.S. Immigration Policy
Lessons for Lawmakers?

WASHINGTON (November 2005) -- As riots engulf France’s immigrant communities and threaten to spread across Europe, government leaders there are learning -- perhaps too late -- that immigrant numbers and integration matter.

The United States, with its more successful history of immigration and assimilation, still has time to avoid going down the same path. However, proposals for huge new foreign-worker schemes, that could dwarf even the great wave of immigration we have experienced over the past generation, would create for the United States many of the problems Europe is experiencing.

To assess these developments and discuss proactive policy choices for American lawmakers, the Center for Immigration Studies is sponsoring a Capitol Hill panel discussion on Monday, November 14, in Rayburn House Office Building Room 2141, at 9:30 a.m. The panel will include:

* Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies;
* Frank Gaffney, President, Center for Security Policy;
* Stephen Steinlight, Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies.

The panel discussion is free and open to the public. For more information, contact John Keeley at (202) 466-8185 or jmk@cis.org.

Comments

[Adam]

Huh? Is it being suggested that the sheer number of immigrants are the problem?

But immigrants in the US can get jobs. Kind of a key difference, don't you think?

[tallglassofmilk]

Um, it's being suggested that immigrant numbers and integration matter.

But you have a point about the jobs. Having a few dishes to wash or a lawn to mow probably puts limits on their availability to riot. Then again, that leaves lots of idol American teenagers who haven't been taught even the word abstinence with entirely too much time on their hands to go off and get each other pregnant and then get abortions they don't need their parents' permission for, but I digress.

And unless we're gonna start calling gang banging or collecting welfare checks official jobs, we gots serious issues just in California alone.

Oh, and that cultural integration thing... if you can find a latino shop owner here in little Guatemala that speaks English, please forward me their address. I'd like to go down and talk to them about the litter on their sidewalk that's being washed down the storm sewers.

Oh, and the Spanish speaking students who can't learn English who are holding English speaking citizens back in class and degrading the California school system?

Oy. Must I continue? I could be here all night and I haven't even touched on the Islamic terrorists in our colleges and inside our government.

[Dave]

I watched this panel on CSPAN. On several occassions while the panelists were speaking I thought that if USA had adopted immigration policy to their liking, they themselves would not have been in USA. They are in the USA because the founders of this nation allowed other people to come here, including the panelists' forefathers.

I could not help but think that these guys are full of prejudice and full of themselves.

I hope USA never adopts a immigration policy to their liking as these guys seemed very racial, bias, and prejudiced.

I have no plans of supporting Center for Immigration Studies with my donations.

Dave