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A Rendezvous with Reality: Are immigrants needed to fill our jobs and make us grow?

National Review

| November 25, 2002 | O'SULLIVAN, JOHN | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

'Reality," as Oscar Wilde should have said, "is the name we give to our mistakes." It is at any rate the name that politicians, journalists, and intellectuals give to their mistakes. In the last 20 years we have been repeatedly assured by all the wise men that "reality" required us to raise taxes in order to balance the budget; somehow "reality" never asked us to cut spending for the same purpose.

Not that such "reality" is the argument solely of liberals and statists. On some issues -- notably drugs and illegal immigration -- conservatives and libertarians are equally quick to resort to it. To justify drug legalization, for instance, libertarians say that no ...

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