This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto - Suketu Mehta
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A timely argument for why the US and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants.
There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West is being destroyed not by immigrants, but by the fear of immigrants.
Mehta juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers, nannies, and others, from Dubai to Queens, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous. But Mehta also stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swaths of the world: When today’s immigrants are asked, “Why are you here?” they can justly respond, “We are here because you were there.” And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish.
Impassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, This Land Is Our Land is a timely and necessary intervention and a literary polemic of the highest order.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 5/5
August 10th, 2019
BUILD THE WALL!
August 10th, 2019
Yeah, what the West desperately needs is an infusion of uneducated bigots from far off places.
Imagine what a few million more Muslims could achieve in terms of cultural deconstruction in just a few short years?
All those amazing nations full of success and brilliance whose citizens we’re missing out on? They don’t exist.
Immigration destroys working class communities and brings us the benefits of female genital mutilation and incestual marriage in return.
What’s not to love? Bring it on.
August 10th, 2019
India is the most racist country in the world, so it’s a bit rich for an Indian to be talking about racism. And the last thing my country needs is more immigrants.
August 10th, 2019
Thank you for another essential upload daenigma100.
For years I found it difficult to understand the fear of immigration in the West:- especially considering that immigrants tend to be the hardest working, the best educated, and the most highly motivated members of their communities.
Then somebody reminded me how many ignorant deadbeats we have in the West.
August 10th, 2019
Stop calling each other names - the Great Caesar decrees it! Ipse dixit, darnit to tarnation!
August 10th, 2019
Ha ha ha. Yes, more advice from an immigrant. Thanks.
August 11th, 2019
lol, how to trigger a trumptard? call your book “this land is our land. Make sure “immigrant” is prominent, and the name of the author obviously nonwestern.
August 11th, 2019
@pryderi: Actually, no, you are spouting the nonsense you have been indoctrinated with by the looney left. In Sweden, for example, statistics show that large-scale immigration is putting a strain on its welfare system, not to mention causing a crime wave (rape, riots, etc).
Source:
https://www.economist.com/europe/2017/06/08/immigration-is-changing-the-swedish-welfare-state
In London, many native Brits have been displaced from unskilled jobs by immigrant job quotas. Just pass through Heathrow and count how many Anglo Saxons are checking in your baggage, driving the transit buses and working in the duty free shops. London has been turned in to a crime-ridden city thanks to Third World immigration. Nigerians, for example, use scooters to rob cell phones and then sell them in Nigeria. Tens of thousands of such scooter crime happen each year in London. It is an epidemic. This has led to a “white flight”. Native Brits are now the minority in their own capitol and are governed by an inept Pakistani mayor — voted in by other immigrants. Mass immigration has also driven up the cost of housing to unaffordable levels, with immigrants often getting preference for state housing.
Then there are the illegal immigrants from Mexico working in unskilled jobs in the U.S., such as in agriculture, as cheap labour, adding to unemployment among legitimate citizens and out-competing legal businesses like house painters and draining the funds back to Mexico.
Big business and left-wing politicians are the only ones who benefit (cheap labour and votes).
August 11th, 2019
illegal aliense are not immigrants
August 11th, 2019
illegal entry into a country is a crime and needs to be addressed. Going through immigration process
being properly vetted is the right way to become a valued citizen.
August 15th, 2019
I’ve met some wonderful immigrants, unfortunately many of them don’t really understand our culture, language and government, and that is where it can get sticky, especially when so many of them are fleeing the ravages of their government and they don’t seem to learn from their own past mistakes.
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