| Re: Choose your side of the barricades, by Hamish MacAulay, Viewpoint,
April 22-April 28, 2004.
This article on immigration to Canada concludes with the author declaring, "If the U.S. persists to the bitter end in protecting its city on the hill, it will be destroyed as was the U.S.S.R." This last sentence is total nonsense, because, first of all, the United States is also a major immigrant-intake country. During the first 25 years of the 20th century, federal immigration officials at Ellis Island in New York harbour alone handled more than 12 million immigrants. Since the 1960s, the U.S., like Canada, has welcomed millions of newcomers. In 2004 the U.S. will admit more than one million immigrants. When did MacCaulay last visit states like California or New York? Immigrants now make up 26 per cent of California's population and over 20 per cent of people in New York. Nationally, 11 percent of people in the U.S. are foreign-born. Secondly, the collapse of the Soviet Union had nothing to do with immigration or lack thereof, but that's another story altogether.
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