Bad timing for good book

This is not an angry book. It is not even an anti-immigrant book. It is instead a book that coldly looks at how this nation's current immigration policy affects every sector, from health care and education to national security.

The book has its share of statistics. One of them ought to shock even those who think they know everything about immigration. Krikorian writes, "Fully one-third of all the people ever to move to the United States, starting from the first Siberian to cross the Bering land bridge in search of game, have arrived since 1965."

His book is a record of how this mass immigration policy began and what it has produced. He details the impact on the public education system, showing that nearly all of the the more recent increases in enrollment are traceable to immigration.

He demonstrates the impact on health care, that about one-quarter of the uninsured in America are immigrants or their children. Because U.S. law mandates that no emergency room may turn away a needy patient, such rooms are closing at an alarming rate. In Los Angeles alone, some 60 hospitals have closed their emergency rooms in the last decade.

The problems posed by current immigration policy — or the lack of it — cannot forever be ignored. When, not if, the issue resurfaces and the debate resumes, Krikorian's book will be the starting place for serious-minded Americans concerned for their country's future.

Mark Krikorian, "The New Case Against Immigration, Both Legal and Illegal"

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