To Reunite a Nation by Patrick Buchanan - Research Paper Example

There is a problem not only in rising social welfare costs, higher taxes, and making wages utterly low but of other graver national concerns. Buchanan cites the grave concern that due to mass immigration, America lost its common history and common experience and it would become difficult to “reunite the country.

3. Provide a quotation from the source with appropriate in-text citation.
“Major consequences flow from having an immigration stream that ignores education or skills. Immigrants are now more likely than native-born Americans to lack a high school education” (Buchanan 406).

4. Respond to the quotations.
This quotation means that America’s present immigration policy is skewed towards admitting immigrants who are less skilled and less educated and whose level of skills and education are comparable to high school graduate native-born Americans. Further, this kind of immigration policy is skewed more toward admitting immigrants who are less needed by the American economy because it ignores skills, education, age, and experience unlike in Canada and Australia whose immigration policies are point-based depending on the immigrant's skills, education and other attributes which could be beneficial to their host country.

1. Who is the probable audience for these sources? Provide evidence for your conclusions
The audience of the source is Americans and policymakers. The essay (or most likely, a speech) was probably written for a president and delivered by a President (although we do not know who exactly) evident in these passages from the texts;
“That is why I am proposing immigration reform to make it possible to fully assimilate the thirty million immigrants who have arrived in the last thirty years. As president, I will ask Congress to reduce new entry visas to 300,000 a year, which is enough to admit immediate family members of new citizens....” Read More