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  3. Immigration is in the headlines again, with President Obama’s decision last week to stop deporting young illegal immigrants who

Immigration is in the headlines again, with President Obama’s decision last week to stop deporting young illegal immigrants who

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问题     Immigration is in the headlines again, with President Obama’s decision last week to stop deporting young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children, and the Supreme Court’s approaching decision on the constitutionality of Arizona’s crackdown on undocumented migrants. But too much of the public debate has focused on the legality of immigration without considering a more fundamental question; What effects has mass immigration had on American society?
    For the May issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, some of the most careful research was commissioned done about the effects of immigration on a cross section of A-merican communities — urban, suburban and rural. The scholars who participated were in remarkable a-greement: while new immigrants are poorer than the general population and face considerable hardship, there is no evidence that they have reshaped the social fabric in harmful ways.
    America is neither less safe because of immigration nor is it worse off economically. In fact, in the regions where immigrants have settled in the past two decades, crime has gone down, cities have grown, poor urban neighborhoods have been rebuilt, and small towns that were once on life support are springing back. Scholars can’t say for sure that immigration caused these positive developments, but we know e-nough to reject the notion that immigrants worsen social ills.
    Scholars found that immigrant youths in Los Angeles were involved in less crime and violence than their native-born peers in similar economic circumstances. Research also has shown that an increase in immigration in cities like San Antonio and Miami did not produce an increase in the homicide rate. Furthermore, social scientists found that people in immigrant communities in New York were less cynical a-bout the law than were people in less diverse communities; they were also more likely to indicate that they would cooperate with the police.
    If migration has had such beneficial effects, why, then, has there been such a persistent backlash? Part of the answer surely lies in the social changes — language, political attitudes, religious mores -that immigrants bring, in addition to the effects of the recession. The leveling-off of migration, especially from Mexico, may bring a sense of relief to opponents of these social changes, but if the new research is any guide, the consequences of the slowdown may be the opposite of what the critics intend.
    Mr. Obama’s decision to exempt undocumented children who were brought to the United States by their parents from harsh deportation rules is an overdue, but welcome, first step. Establishing a clear path to citizenship for undocumented adults, creating a more permissive guest-worker program and preserving families rather than separating them through deportation are controversial ideas, but they deserve a hearing.
On which of the following would scholars agree, according to Paragraphs 2 and 3?
选项 A、Immigrants have been appraised negatively.
B、Immigrants have worsened social ills.
C、Immigrants have pulled down the average living standards.
D、Immigrants have reshaped the social fabric beneficially.
答案A
解析 第二段末句以及第三段末句分别提及：无证据证明“移民对社会结构进行了破坏性重塑”，“移民加重社会问题”的观点是错误的。可见，学者们所呈递的新发现与原来人们既有效看法相悖，移民在此研究发现前受着负面评价，[A]选项符合文意，同时排除[B]选项。
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