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Anti-immigrant and anti-immigration are labels that are often considered inaccurate or prejudicial by those to whom they are applied. Immigration reductionist is a more neutral term. The distinction is that the term anti-immigrant implies xenophobia, nativism and/or racism, though not all who oppose immigration hold those views. Some feel that anti-immigration is also inaccurate because many who wish to reduce immigration do not want to eliminate it entirely. To the extent that there are people who hold anti-immigrant sentiments, they justify them with their belief that immigrants:
- isolate themselves in their own communities and refusing to learn the language/culture.
- steal the jobs
- damage the sense of community and nationality
- increase the consumption of scarce resources
Prominent opinion leaders that oppose immigration and immigrants' rights blame immigration for several problems, including unemployment, crime, harm to the environment, and detoriating public education. Their critics often argue that while the problems are real, blaming immigrants is rather a form of scapegoating.
In the US, immigration reductionism has a long history, including the Know Nothings Party of the mid- 19th Century. Eugenicists in the early 20th Century used questionable data on the intelligence of Southern Europeans to influence the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924The United States Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act) limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of person from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890. It superseded the 19. Immigration reductionism is not a strictly left/right issue. For example, the Wall Street Journal endorses liberal immigration policies in order to provide business with a steady supply of cheap labor, while some environmentalists call for immigration reduction in order to minimize pollutionLachine Canal, in Montreal, is badly polluted Pollution is the release of harmful environmental contaminants, or the substances so released. Generally the process needs to result from human activity to be regarded as pollution. Even relatively benign prod in the US. Illegal immigration, principally from MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co, is the leading concern for most immigration reductionists. Prominent mainstream supporters of US immigration reductionism include: Tom TancredoThomas G. Tancredo (born December 20 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing the 6th District of Colorado. He was born in Denver, Colorado, was educated at the Univers, Patrick Buchanan, John Tanton , and Roy Beck .
Immigration reductionism in Europe is based particularly on the influx of Moslems from Turkey and Northern Africa. Prominent European opponents of this migration include Jörg Haider, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and Pim Fortuyn (deceased). Anti-immigration views are held by virtually all neo-nazist, and ethnic and racial separatist movements in Europe and the US, as well as by moderates with no connections to those groups.
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