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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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2014-06-25
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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.
To handle the immigration question, the author suggests______.
选项
A、deporting undocumented adults
B、abolishing harsh deportation rules
C、establishing a guest-worker program
D、holding immigrant families together
答案
B
解析
作者在最后一段首先支持奥巴马让非法移民儿童免受严苛递解出境条款这一决议;随后提出解决移民问题的意见:为成年非法移民获取合法公民身份之路清除障碍,制定更为宽松的外籍劳工计划,同时保全移民家庭而不是通过递解出境以拆散他们。可见,作者对于严苛的递解出境条款不赞同,希望废除,[B]选项符合文意。
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