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However, if assimilation is not taking place at a fast enough rate, then prudence and principle alike dictate a more restrictionist policy. As Huntington convincingly shows, that is the situation we face today vis-à-vis Mexican immigration. He quotes former National Intelligence Council Vice Chairman Graham Fuller, who says of the Mexican-dominated regions of the American Southwest, “We may be building toward the one thing that will choke the melting pot, an ethnic area and grouping so concentrated that it will not wish, or need, to undergo assimilation into the mainstream of American multi...
...nation's economic woes. Inflation has driven up prices of many U.S.-made products, leading manufacturers to clamor for barriers against imports. Rising unemployment has swung the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to the protectionist side; its lobbyists buttonholed Ways & Means members outside H208 last week to repeat time-worn restrictionist arguments. Sample from Union Lobbyist Liz Jaeger, who once championed free trade but is now campaigning for shoe quotas: "Shoes are vital for defense. An army has to have shoes to march on, doesn't it?" The A.F.L.-C.I.O. stand weighed heavily in the Ways & Means votes. Says New York...
...protested that it was a backward-looking move that might jeopardize years of patient progress toward lower tariffs. Wilson's rebuttal was contained in his next major policy pronouncement, a detailed White Paper emphasizing that the solution to Britain's economic ills does not lie in "oldfashioned, restrictionist ideas," as he puts it, but in stem-to-stern reform of backward industries and restrictive labor practices...
Fleming, who is about to bring in the government's new budget, insisted: "Mr. Coyne's continuation in office would stand in the way of a comprehensive, sound and responsible economic program. The government's policy is expansionist. The policies advocated by Mr. Coyne are restrictionist-restrictive of trade, of production, of jobs...
...reader may by now guess that I am moving in the general direction of a restrictionist program. Rumors of a rise of tuition have been circulating. It is clear that tuition rises in the last 25 years have been substantially below the gain in real income per capita. But a rise in tuition may result in a decline of quality if not accompanied by restrictions of entry...