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"As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." —Abraham Lincoln

We must heed this advice of Lincoln when it comes to solving America's immigration crisis, says immigration expert Mark Krikorian in a new thought-provoking book, The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal (Sentinel).

What’s new is Krikorian’s argument that mass immigration is simply incompatible with a modern society—not because today’s immigrants are different from the past, but because we are. “The changes that define modern America—in our society, economy, government, technology, for example—are so fundamental that our past success in dealing with immigration is simply no longer relevant,” declares Krikorian in The New Case Against Immigration.

Krikorian has studied the trends and concluded that America must permanently reduce immigration—both legal and illegal—or face enormous problems in the near future.

Krikorian points out that while immigrants today come from different countries than a century ago, they’re very similar in all important ways to those who came through Ellis Island.

But we’re not. Before the upheavals of the 1960s, the United States expected immigrants from around the world to earn a living, learn English, and become patriotic Americans. But since the rise of identity politics, political correctness, and Great Society programs, we no longer make these demands. Even the positive changes of the last few decades, such as the Internet and cheap international phone service, hinder the assimilation of immigrants by making it easier for them to lead “transnational” lives. Krikorian writes, “all modern societies, or at least their elites, lose the cultural self-confidence needed to induce patriotic assimilation.”

In The New Case Against Immigration, Krikorian proves that although mass immigration once served our national interests, in today’s America it threatens to destroy our common national identity, threaten our sovereignty and security, limit opportunities for upward mobility, strain resources for social programs, and disrupt middle class norms of behavior.

So as the politicians debate various kinds of amnesty for illegal aliens, they are missing the bigger picture: the harmful impact of large-scale settlement of all kinds of immigrants, whether legal or illegal, skilled or unskilled, European or Latin or Asian or African.

In The New Case Against Immigration, Krikorian concludes that modern America has simply outgrown immigration, and we must end it before it cripples us.

Some early Praise for The New Case Against Immigration:

“When it comes to our immigration mess, no one has a deeper understanding of the facts than Mark Krikorian. Pay attention: America’s future is at stake.”
-- Michelle Malkin

“Mark Krikorian steps back from today’s debates and examines the big picture, questioning the place of immigration in a modern society. Agree or disagree with his proposals, this is an important book—not just for conservatives, but for all Americans.”
-- William J. Bennett, host of Bill Bennett’s Morning in America

“Superbly researched and brilliantly argued, The New Case Against Immigration should settle the debate once and for all. Civilized, compassionate, and wise, this short book may save a great nation.”
-- David Frum, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute

“Mark Krikorian has waged an often lonely war to restore some sanity to immigration policy. His latest book will be caricatured by many as insensitive—especially his calls to select legal immigrants carefully only on the basis of skills and merit. Yet The New Case Against Immigration is a classically liberal call for assimilation and integration in the best past traditions of a multiracial America. The onus is on his critics to show where his economic, cultural, and social arguments are flawed or inexact—and that will be difficult indeed, given such a carefully researched and argued book.”
-- Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; author of Mexifornia

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Krikorian, the grandson of Armenian immigrants, is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He is also a longtime contributor to National Review and National Review Online and is the nation’s most frequently quoted immigration expert. He lives near Washington, D.C.