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Short essay 5 (due October 30)

We’ve now read most of Borjas’ book, and will finish it on Monday.

Using the readings, respond to the statement in bold below. You may take any position on it you like; just be sure that you make a case for your position based on the readings.

It may be true, as Borjas argues, that a significant segment of the American population is economically harmed by mass immigration as the country is currently experiencing it, but this is a necessary cost that the country will just have to bear because the benefits reaped by others (the immigrants themselves and the business/elite class), as well as the unquestionable value of increasing cultural pluralism, outweigh those negative effects.

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