= Let Them In - The Case for Open Borders = === Jason Riley 2008 === === book notes === . Nativism for centuries . Ben Franklin feared Germans . Lou Dobbs, Don Goldwater, Pat Buchanan, Nicholas Kristof, Robert Rector . Ambrose Bierce, Henry George, Samuel Morse . Gingrich, Tancredo, O'Reilly, Beck, . Reagan was pro-immigration . November 1989 called for free labor flows . Bush did not want to lose Hispanic vote . 8% of the electorate, half of that foreign born . Anti-imm Republicans lose elections . Hayworth, Graf, Hostettler, Beauprez, Kean, McGavick, Santorum . Sierra Club neutral . nativists seceeded . John Tanton, Richard Lamm, David Pimentel, Frank Morris . Eugenicists . Galton, Russell, Wells, Shaw, Holmes, Sanger . Lomborg: Population growth peaked in 1964 at 2.17% . 1.26% 2000 . 1% 2016 (est) || Median Age || 1950 || 2000 || 2050 || || US || 30 || 35 || 40 || || Europe || 29 || || 48 || || Japan || 22 || || 53 || . US - half of pop growth immigration . environment improving, technology the cause . 1976-2001 60% less toxic chemicals . "" 97% less lead air pollution . "" 67% less SO2 air pollution . "" 72% less CO air pollution . forested land increasing . 43% less soil erosion . immigrants improve labor flexibility, improve economy, create other jobs . Giovanni Peri at UC Davis: 1990-2004, immigration induced 4% native wave increase . 2003 30% of PhD foreign born . 37% Cypress Semi engineers foreign born, create 5 jobs each . Immigrants very low and very high skilled . complimentary to american mid-skilled . If they can't work farm jobs, the farms move south . Milton Friedman: minimum wage anti-black . Legal immigrants far more likely to go on welfare than illegals . illegals: mostly pay SS and taxes . young and here for the work . if they use services, they get caught . 1995 legals 12% of SSI. TANF . 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act . 5 year bar following entry . program use halved . 60% natives collect more in government services than they pay in taxes . Urban Institute: illegals 1% welfare, native 5% . Illegal alien education "cost" is for children who are actually 67% citizens . Illegal labor force participation rate 94% . the longer they are here, the less they are unemployed . 2005 census: < 10y 1/3 speak english well, > 30y 3/4 speak english well . 91% children 97% grandchildren speak english well . 89% of latinos believe immigrants need to speak English to succeed . Joel Perlmann '''Italians Then, Mexicans Now''' . 80% of MexAm children in raised two-parent families . no Islam terrorists from Mexico . most legal . Illegals come through Canada . Michael Chertoff, DHS sec (also Tom Ridge, previous DHS): . "economic migrants are not a threat to national security" . "tall grass, a distraction"