ABSTRACT
This book discusses five claims that American society has fallen into crisis since the new immigrants arrived and that they are responsible for its decline. The first is a claim about demography. The second is a claim about carrying capacity; it holds that these high immigration levels are stretching American society's environmental resources beyond the breaking point. The third is a claim about economic impacts; it contends that the post-1965 immigrants fail to pull their weight in the labor market and drain off scarce fiscal resources. The fourth is a claim about cultural assimilation; it states that the post-1965 immigrants are not embracing American values as completely or as swiftly as their predecessors did. The fifth is a claim about politics; it maintains that the post-1965 immigrants are altering the terms of political discourse in ways that weaken the American polity and call into question its viability as a nation-state.
