Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution

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Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution
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Author Jeb Bush
Clint Bolick
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Publisher Simon & Schuster
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2013
ISBN 1-4767-1345-6

Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution is a 2013 non-fiction book about immigration in the United States co-written by Jeb Bush, who served as the Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, and Clint Bolick, who serves as the Vice President of Litigation at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

Immigration to the United States demographic phenomenon

Immigration to the United States is the international movement of non-U.S. nationals in order to reside permanently in the country. Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the U.S. history. Because the United States is a settler colonial society, all Americans, with the exception of the small percent of Native Americans, can trace their ancestry to immigrants from other nations around the world.

Jeb Bush American politician, former Governor of Florida

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former President George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development, and in 1986 became Florida's Secretary of Commerce until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

Clint Bolick Associate Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court

Clint Bolick is an Associate Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. Previously, he served as Vice President of Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, where he litigated against governments and government employees on behalf of citizens. He co-founded the Institute for Justice, where he was the Vice President and Director of Litigation from 1991 until 2004. He led two cases that went before the Supreme Court of the United States. He has also defended state-based school choice programs in the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and Ohio.

Contents

Background

The book was co-written by Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick. Bush is the son of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush and the brother of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. [1] He served as the Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. [1] He is the Founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Florida's Future, a conservative think tank, and Chairman of Foundation for Excellence in Education. Bolick is an attorney, former Libertarian candidate, and Founder of the Institute for Justice, a conservative think tank. He serves as the Vice President of Litigation at the Goldwater Institute, another conservative think tank in Phoenix, Arizona. [1]

George H. W. Bush 41st president of the United States

George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd vice president from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, Bush also served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Director of Central Intelligence. Until his son George W. Bush became the 43rd president in 2001, he was usually known as George Bush.

George W. Bush 43rd president of the United States

George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He had previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.

Foundation for Excellence in Education

The Foundation for Excellence in Education is a think tank on education reform based in Tallahassee, Florida.

The book was announced in the fall of 2012 and released in March 2013 by Simon & Schuster. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Simon & Schuster Large English-language publisher

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints.

Content

The book starts with a preface written by Jeb Bush, followed by another preface written by Clint Bolick. In his, Bush reminds the reader that the issue of immigration is close to home for him, as his wife, Columba Bush, was born in Mexico. Bolick, on the other hand, explains that he often had to deal with immigration cases as an attorney.

Columba Bush American philanthropist

Columba Bush is a Mexican-American philanthropist. Bush served as First Lady of Florida from 1999 to 2007 and is the wife of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Mexico Country in the southern portion of North America

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometers (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fourth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 129 million people, Mexico is the tenth most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states plus Mexico City (CDMX), which is the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the country include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana, and León.

Civics derives from the French word civitie, meaning critizen, and the Latin, civic, a garland of oak leaves worn about the head as a crown, given in reward of those who saved another citizen from death. Civics are the things people do affecting fellow citizens, especially when that relates to the maintenance of urban development.

American Dream ethos of the United States

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. Charter schools are an example of public asset privatization.

The book ends with a "post-script", 'Postscript: A Prescription for Republicans.' It presents some advice to presidential candidate Mitt Romney, counseling him to be more pro-immigration.

Mitt Romney United States Senator from Utah

Willard Mitt Romney is an American politician and businessman serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019. He previously served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

Promotional efforts

On March 04, 2013, Bush and Bolick gave a question-and-answer session about the book at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank in New York City. [5] They were introduced by Daniel Henninger, the Deputy Editorial Page Editor at The Wall Street Journal . [5] The co-authors were also scheduled to appear at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., on March 06, 2013, but their engagement was canceled due to "inclement weather." [6] Later that month, Bush presented the book at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. [7] The talk was broadcast on C-SPAN's Book TV five times in March and April 2013. [7] In November 2013, Bush talked about the book at the 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side in New York City. [8]

Critical reception

Critical reception of the book in the press was mixed and at times controversial.

Prior to its release date, the Huffington Post published a review of the book written by a journalist who had read the book, suggesting Bush supported "self-deportation" even though he had derided presidential candidate Mitt Romney for it in his 2012 campaign. [9] In an update added to the review, former Romney advisers suggested this had been unfair on Romney, but Bush retorted that this was a misunderstanding of his views on letting undocumented immigrants return to their home countries and apply for citizenship there; he added that it was not present in the book. [10] Writing for the Miami Herald , Marc Caputo suggested this might have been a marketing ploy for Bush to attract more readers. [10] In the National Review , Reihan Salam suggested Bush's idea bore "close resemblance to" the ideas of Peter Skerry, a Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and expressed his approval of the notion, adding that its implementation may prove difficult. [11] However, Peter Skerry, in his review for The Weekly Standard , did not acknowledge this. [12] Instead, he argued that they misunderstood a study by the Brookings Institution they use as a citation on the burden that immigrants impose on welfare programs. [12] He added that it would be preferable to train low-skilled workers already on U.S. soil rather than bring in new ones, both for skilled and unskilled work. [12]

Writing for The Washington Post , Manuel Roig-Franzia suggested Bush had flipflopped on immigration. [13] Indeed, he writes that Bush supported the DREAM Act in 2002 while he takes a more conservative stance in the book. [13] However, Roig-Franzia, who is bylined as the author of The Rise of Marco Rubio, notes that Bush and Marco Rubio, a Republican Senator from Florida, are both potential contenders for the 2016 presidential election. [13] In a review for The New Republic, Nate Cohn argued that the book presented an immigration policy unlikely to appeal to Hispanic voters. [14] In The Wall Street Journal, Vincent J. Cannato, a Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, wrote that it was "about as sensible a look at immigration policy as one will find these days". [15] However, he added that the co-authors failed to give precise answers about specific "caps or yearly quotas". [15] Moreover, he argued that their disavowal of family reunification in favor of skilled migrants would appear unattractive to Hispanic voters. [15] In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, John F. Rohe of the anti-immigration Colcom Foundation agreed with Cannato that Bush and Bolick failed to give specific quotas for legal immigration. [16] He went on to argue their pro-immigration stance would lead to "resource depletion," including "more water shortages, sprawl, farmland intrusion, wetland losses, biodiversity casualties, gridlock, toxins, energy demands, health care challenges and social safety net gaps," among other things. [16] In a scathing review for The Guardian , Michael Wolff wrote that it was "a book without real thought, or information, or meaning, besides self-promotion, which exists only to provide a pretext to get the politician-author on television". [17]

In another review published in The Washington Times, David DesRosiers, the former Executive Vice President of the Manhattan Institute and current publisher of RealClearPolitics, wrote that it was, "a must-read for every citizen, wannabe citizen, legal working resident and those illegally working in the shadows of our economy". [18] Another glowing review came from Anneke Green of the White House Writers Group in June 2013, who argued in U.S. News & World Report that the United States Senate should be looking at Immigration Wars for solutions to immigration reform. [19]

In July 2014, the co-authors published an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal about the children's immigration crisis, where many children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have come into the United States territory illegally, highly solutions [ clarification needed ] found in Immigration Wars. [20]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Daniel Gonzalez, Jeb Bush, Phoenix attorney to write book on immigration fixes, The Arizona Republic ,
  2. ↑ Hillel Italie, Jeb Bush Book: Former Florida Governor Announces Plans To Release 'Immigration Wars', Huffington Post, September 12, 2012
  3. ↑ Byron York, As book is published, Jeb Bush wavers on immigration proposal, The Washington Examiner , March 05, 2013
  4. ↑ Simon & Schuster: Immigration Wars
  5. 1 2 Immigration Wars: Forging An American Solution, March 04, 2013
  6. ↑ Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, Cato Institute, March 06, 2013
  7. 1 2 "Book Discussion on Immigration Wars". C-SPAN. 8 March 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2015. Jeb Bush talked about his book, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, in which he argues that the our immigration policy should be overhauled to reflect our current economic needs, but also clear enough to enforce properly. Mr. Bush spoke at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.Cite web requires |website= (help)
  8. ↑ Ashley Alman, Jeb Bush Holds Out Hope For Immigration Reform, Huffington post , November 19, 2013
  9. ↑ Elise Foley, Jeb Bush Book: Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Ineligible For Citizenship, Huffington Post, March 04, 2013
  10. 1 2 Marc Caputo, Jeb Bush immigration reversal? No citizenship-pathway for the undocumented. Pulling a Romney?, The Miami Herald , March 04, 2013
  11. ↑ Reihan Salam, Clint Bolick and Jeb Bush on Immigration Reform, National Review , March 04, 2013
  12. 1 2 3 Peter Skerry, Welcome to America, The Weekly Standard , April 15, 2013
  13. 1 2 3 Manuel Roig-Franzia, Book review: ‘Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution’ by Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick, The Washington Post , March 8, 2013
  14. ↑ Nate Cohn, Jeb Bush's Plan to Win Over Latinos Won't Work, The New Republic , March 05, 2013
  15. 1 2 3 Vincent J. Cannato, Give Me Your Skilled Workers, The Wall Street Journal , March 11, 2013
  16. 1 2 John F. Rohe, Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick's 'Immigration Wars': the wrong battle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , April 07, 2013
  17. ↑ Michael Wolff, Watch Jeb Bush and beware politicians bearing books, The Guardian , March 12, 2013
  18. ↑ David DesRosiers, BOOK REVIEW: ‘Immigration Wars’, The Washington Times , April 15, 2013
  19. ↑ Anneke E. Green, Immigration Reform Needs To Take a Page From Jeb Bush's Book, U.S. News & World Report , June 11, 2013
  20. ↑ Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick, The Solution to Border Disorder, The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2014
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