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- Title
The Case for Amnesty: Moral argument belongs at the center of the immigration debate.
- Authors
LaMarche, Gara
- Abstract
This article responds to an article on U.S. immigration policy by Joseph Carens in the same issue. The author supports Carens' arguments on moral grounds, citing the amount of suffering people undergo to get to the U.S. and the bigotry and racism she sees in the anti-immigrant movement on the other. She acknowledges that there are other good arguments for liberalizing immigration policy, such as labor-market impact analyses and legal rights claims. She sees these, however, as pragmatic adjustments to the political climate that support an essentially moral issue. She likens the approach to that of anti-death penalty or anti-torture advocates who argue the practical implications of the practices they work against, but whose motivation is primarily moral.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EMIGRATION &; immigration; LABOR market; LEGAL rights; CAPITAL punishment -- Social aspects; TORTURE -- Social aspects; CARENS, Joseph; ETHICS
- Publication
Boston Review, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 3, p15
- ISSN
0734-2306
- Publication type
Article