No offense but the book does not sound interesting to me.
You wrote “How helpful will it be to settle more Muslims into Europe and the US? What are the security and cultural implications? How many should we take in? Why are they all headed to the West rather than to neighboring countries who have the same heritage? What impact does this have on the economic welfare of the citizens of Europe and the US? Is it a refugee’s right to be admitted?”
All good questions and these and others are the ones we will have to answer. I used to be more of an isolationist but now I’m just unsure what we need to do and how to do it.
No offense taken. It is just a prescient book that describes exactly what is happening now. We are seeing a massive migration of people from the Third World to the Developed World, and it has had and will continue to have a huge impact our country, which is effectively being colonized. The public policy implications are enormous along with electoral politics. Demography is destiny.
All good questions and these and others are the ones we will have to answer. I used to be more of an isolationist but now I’m just unsure what we need to do and how to do it.
It is not about being an isolationist. We have just had the two highest decades of legal immigration in our history with over 35 million legal permanent immigrants entering since 1990. In 1970 one in 21 was foreign-born; today it is a little less than one in 8, the highest in 105 years; and within a decade it will be one in 7, the highest in our history. Something very significant is happening within a very short period of time. We can't continue to bring in huge numbers of foreign workers, 1.1 million legal permanent immigrants annually along with 640,000 guest workers a year and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens while we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years. They are related along with stagnant/declining wages.
Trump has this in his immigration position paper:
Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.