Behind the Green Card

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Behind the Green Card explodes the innumerable myths and bogeymen that obscure the reality of US immigration policy. Blinded by misguided "national security interests," the United States has codified a series of unworkable and irresponsible laws which make this country weaker, poorer and less secure than ever. Through the elimination of both a huge marketplace and enormous supply of labor, the US struggles to regain economic growth while other developed nations, through sensible immigration policies, forge ahead.

About the Book

Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has described America's immigration policy as the greatest case of national suicide ever seen. Immigration lawyerDonald Dobkin decided to write a book on immigration in the belief that the American public has not been getting the true story about our immigration system. Misconceptions and misinformation rule the day.� The US is no longer the only game in town. America's hard line toward immigration has sent applicants fleeing to other countries. India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK have benefited enormously from this flight.� We need to get off of our arrogant pedestal.� The economic consequences of this policy have been severe.As Dobkin details in these chapters, the US has stumbled its way toward impending disasters: The economic peril of quasi-closed bordersThe myths of purported national security imperativesThe brain-drain: exclusion of foreign best and brightest mindsThe rise of the Administrative State: the largest actual branch of the US governmentThe strangulation of legal immigrationBehind the Green Card is a startlingly frank expose of cynical political interests, economic manipulation and outright racism run amok. Written in common-sense, straightforward style, the book is for readers across the board of interests: politicos, social advocates, policy students, current events readers.