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59.
 CFR Task Force Report, p. 3.

60.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 1.

61.
 West,
Brain Gain
, p. 129.

62.
 Vivek Wadhwa, AnnaLee Saxenian, Ben Rissing, and Gary Gereffi, “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Part I,” Duke Master of Engineering Management Program and UC Berkeley School of Information (Jan. 4, 2007), p. 4 (henceforth “Duke/Berkeley Study”).

63.
 Quoted in Connie Griglialmo, “How Jobs Created Jobs,”
Forbes,
August 20, 2012, pp. 38–39.

64.
 West,
Brain Gain
, p. 6.

65.
 CFR Task Force Report, p. 15.

66.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, conclusion.

67.
 West,
Brain Gain
, p. 37.

68.
 Remarks of J. P. Conte, Hoover Institution Conference on Legal Immigration.

69.
 Matthew J. Slaughter, “How Skilled Immigrants Create Jobs,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 21, 2012, p. A17.

70.
 James, “1 Million Skilled Workers Stuck in ‘Immigration Limbo.’ ”

71.
 “People Power,”
Economist,
October 20, 2012, reviewing Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever,
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
(2012).

72.
 Vivek Wadhwa, Ben Rissing, AnnaLee Saxenian, and Gary Gereffi, “America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II,” Duke Master of Engineering Management Program, University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, and Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation, June 11, 2007, p. 3.

73.
 West,
Brain Gain
, p. 23.

74.
 Orrenius and Zavodny, “Immigration and Growth,” p. 254.

75.
 “The Chilecon Valley Challenge: In the War for Talent, America Can Learn a Lot From Chile,”
Economist,
October 13, 2012.

76.
 Bloomberg, “Obama, Romney Immigration Silence Hurts Economy.”

77.
 CFR Task Force Report, p. 16.

78.
 “The Chilecon Valley Challenge.”

79.
 Alexandra Starr, “Incubating Ideas in the U.S., Hatching Them Elsewhere,”
Wall Street Journal,
September 11, 2012, p. A13.

80.
 Kirk Semple, “Many U.S. Immigrants’ Children Seek American Dream Abroad,”
New York Times,
April 15, 2012.

81.
 CFR Task Force Report, p. 53.

82.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 5.

83.
 Ibid., chapter 6.

84.
 Ibid., introduction.

85.
 West,
Brain Gain
, p. 37.

86.
 Robert Zubrin, “Towards An Intelligent Immigration Policy,”
National Review Online,
November 12, 2012.

87.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 6.

88.
 Bloomberg, “Obama, Romney Immigration Silence Hurts Economy.”

89.
 Becker, “When Illegals Stop Crossing the Border,” p. 244.

CHAPTER THREE: THE RULE OF LAW

1.
 CFR Task Force Report, p. 5.

2.
 Federation for American Immigration Reform, “The Cost to Local Taxpayers for Illegal Aliens,” 2008, p. 1.

3.
 West,
Brain Gain
, p. 10.

4.
 See Immigration Policy Center, “Breaking Down The Problems: What’s Wrong With Our Immigration System?,” October 2009, p. 9.

5.
 
Arizona v. United States
, No. 11-182, slip op. (U.S. June 25, 2012) (Scalia, J., dissenting), p. 25.

6.
 See Clint Bolick, “Mission Unaccomplished: The Misplaced Priorities of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office,” Goldwater Institute Policy Report No. 229, December 2, 2008.

7.
 Miriam Jordan, “Immigration-Policy Details Emerge,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 3, 2012.

8.
 Tamar Jacoby, “Obama’s Executive Order Is Good News, But Not the Solution,”
USNews.com
, June 19, 2012.

9.
 See, e.g., Julia Preston, “Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority,”
New York Times,
April 9, 2009.

10.
 “A Solution, This Isn’t,”
Yellow Sheet Report,
June 19, 2012.

11.
 Gonzalez, “In 2 Years, A Sea Change,” p. A1.

12.
 Douglas S. Massey, “America Is Losing As Many Illegal Immigrants As It’s Gaining,”
Reuters.com
blog, April 12, 2012.

13.
 Tamar Jacoby, “We’re All Arizonans Now—The Fallout of SB 1070,”
U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum
(Spring–Summer 2010), p. 25.

14.
 CFR Task Force Report, p. 7.

15.
 Testimony of Tamar Jacoby before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, July 26, 2005, pp. 4–5.

16.
 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, “U.S. Immigration and Economic Growth,” p. 4.

17.
 Robert Zubrin, “Towards an Intelligent Immigration Policy,”
National Review Online,
November 12, 2012.

CHAPTER FOUR: AN ENDURING DEBATE

1.
 Quoted in Roger Daniels,
Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life,
2nd ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 2002), pp. 109–10. Franklin later modified his views and supported European immigration; Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 9.

2.
 Daniels,
Coming to America
, pp. 114–15.

3.
 Walter A. Ewing, “Opportunity and Exclusion: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy,” Immigration Policy Center, January 2012, p. 3.

4.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 9.

5.
 
Passenger Cases
, 48 U.S. 283 (1849).

6.
 
Henderson v. Mayor of New York
, 92 U.S. 259 (1875).

7.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, pp. 9–11.

8.
 Ibid., p. 12.

9.
 Ewing,
Opportunity and Exclusion
, p. 3.

10.
 Ibid., pp. 3–4.

11.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 28.

12.
 Vincent J. Cannato, “Our Evolving Immigration Policy,”
National Affairs,
Fall 2012, pp. 115–16.

13.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 2; Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 29.

14.
 Ewing,
Opportunity and Exclusion
, p. 4.

15.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 69.

16.
 Ibid., pp. 26 and 36.

17.
 
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
, 118 U.S. 356, 370 (1886).

18.
 See Clint Bolick,
Death Grip: Loosening the Law’s Stranglehold Over Economic Liberty
(Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2011), pp. 45–76.

19.
 Daniels,
Coming to America
, pp. 160–61.

20.
 
Meyer v. Nebraska
, 262 U.S. 390 (1923);
Pierce v. Society of Sisters
, 268 U.S. 510 (1925);
Farrington v. Tokushige
, 273 U.S. (1927).

21.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 59.

22.
 Daniels,
Coming to America
, pp. 300–301.

23.
 Ewing,
Opportunity and Exclusion
, pp. 4–5.

24.
 Ibid., p. 5; Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, pp. 90–91.

25.
 Ewing,
Opportunity and Exclusion
, p. 5.

26.
 Senator Pat McCarran,
Congressional Record,
March 2, 1953, p. S1518.

27.
 Daniels,
Coming to America
, pp. 373–75.

28.
 Ewing,
Opportunity and Exclusion
, pp. 5–6.

29.
 Cannato, “Our Evolving Immigration Policy,” p. 122.

30.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 137.

31.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 2.

32.
 Ewing,
Opportunity and Exclusion
, p. 6.

33.
 Ibid., p. 6.

34.
 Ibid., pp. 6–7.

35.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 2.

36.
 Ibid.

37.
 Ibid., introduction.

38.
 Ewing, Alden
Opportunity and Exclusion
, p. 7.

39.
 Gaston Espinoza, Virgilio Elizondo, and Jesse Maranda, “Hispanic Churches in American Public Life: Summary of Findings,” University of Notre Dame Institute for Latino Studies, March 2003, p. 15.

40.
 Ibid., chapter 7.

41.
 CFR Task Force Report, pp. 53–54.

42.
 Ibid., p. 76; West,
Brain Gain
, p. 52.

43.
 Daniels,
Guarding the Golden Door
, p. 236.

44.
 Alden,
The Closing of the American Border
, chapter 2.

45.
 Sabrina Tavernise, “Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.,”
New York Times,
May 17, 2012, p. A1.

46.
 Miriam Jordan, “Asians Top Immigration Class,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 18, 2012.

47.
 Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “U.S. Foreign-Born Population: How Much Change From 2009 to 2010?,” Pew Research Center, January 9, 2012, p. 1.

CHAPTER FIVE: THE HUMAN DIMENSION

1.
 Robert J. Samuelson, “The American Dream’s Empty Promise,”
Washington Post,
September 23, 2012.

2.
 Marco Rubio, “Rubio Addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials,” June 22, 2012, p. 3.

3.
 Interview of Nina Shokraii Rees by Clint Bolick, December 5, 2012.

4.
 Interview of Laura Osio Khosrowshahi by Clint Bolick, October 16, 2012.

5.
 Richard Ruelas, “A Home and a Future,”
Arizona Republic,
November 18, 2012, pp. A1 and A18–A19.

6.
 “Deferred Action Immigration Event Draws Thousands of DREAMers on First Day,”
HuffingtonPost.com
, August 15, 2012.

7.
 “Benita Veliz Speech Marks First Remarks From DREAMer at Democratic National Convention,”
HuffingtonPost.com
, September 6, 2012.

8.
 Interview of Annette Poppleton by Clint Bolick, October 19, 2012.

9.
 Interview of Faithful Okoye by Clint Bolick, October 17, 2012.

10.
 Interview of Julie Erfle by Clint Bolick, October 18, 2012.

11.
 “Illegal Immigrant Responsible for Death of Police Officer,”
tucsonnewsnow.com
, September 19, 2007.

12.
 Brian Solomon, “The Optimist,”
Forbes,
September 24, 2012, p. 122.

CHAPTER SIX: IMMIGRATION AND EDUCATION

1.
 Michael Noer, “Reeducating Education,”
Forbes,
November 19, 2012, p. 86.

2.
 Veronique DeRugy, “Losing the Brains Race: America Is Spending More Money on Education While Producing Worse Outcomes,”
Reason,
March 2011.

3.
 Michael Brendan Dougherty, “If America Spends More Than Most Countries Per Student, Then Why Are Its Schools So Bad,”
businessinsider.com
, January 7, 2012.

4.
 Matthew Ladner and Lindsey M. Burke, “Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: Learning From Florida’s Reforms,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, September 17, 2010, p. 3.

5.
 Miriam Jordan, “Immigrant Children Lag Behind, Posing Risk,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 13, 2012.

6.
 Mark Hugo Lopez, “Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap,” Pew Hispanic Center, October 7, 2009.

7.
 Lance T. Izumi, “The Bilingual Debate: English Immersion,”
New York Times,
September 28, 2008.

8.
 Ladner and Burke, “Closing the Racial Achievement Gap,” p. 2.

9.
 Ibid., p. 5.

10.
 Ibid., pp. 7–8.

11.
 Ibid., p. 7.

12.
 See James Tooley,
From Village School to Global Brand: Changing the World Through Education
(London: Profile Books, 2012); Jay Mathews,
Work Hard. Be Nice. How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
(Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2009).

13.
 Clint Bolick, “Charter Schools Transforming Educational Landscape,”
www.goldwaterinstitute.com
, November 7, 2012.

14.
 Ibid.

15.
 Noer, “Reeducating Education,” p. 84.

16.
 See Clint Bolick, “The Future of School Choice,”
Defining Ideas,
Hoover Institution, October 18, 2012.

POSTSCRIPT: A PRESCRIPTION FOR REPUBLICANS

1.
 “The GOP’s Demographics Problem,”
Boston Globe,
October 13, 2012.

2.
 Julia Preston, “GOP Immigration Platform Backs ‘Self-Deportation,’ ”
NYTimes.com
, August 23, 2012.

3.
 “Kris Kobach Convinces GOP to Harshen Immigration Platform,”
huffingtonpost.com
, August 21, 2012.

4.
 Mark Hugo Lopez, Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, and Seth Motel, “As Deportations Rise to Record Levels, Most Latinos Oppose Obama’s Policy,” Pew Research Center, December 8, 2011.

5.
 See, e.g., Daniel Gonzalez and Dan Nowicki, “Latino Votes Key to Obama Victory,”
Arizona Republic,
November 8, 2012, p. A8.

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