Very Interesting Article on Immigration --- From the Good News!!!

If you haven't read the November Good News yet, you should be getting it soon. (If you don't read it online, that is). Anyway, I wanted to point out an article on immigration in it that was very interesting. The article talked about Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Reform Law and some of the consequences of it in a way that one usually has to go to immigration reform sights to read. It was very interesting!

Complete article here http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn79/australia-identity-crisis.htm Highlights here News reports recently noted that the U.S. population has passed 300 million, more than a third of which are minorities. Demographic projections now indicate that the majority will become the minority by 2042. This will surely have a significant impact on the country and its foreign policy. As the majority whites become a minority in each of the nations descended from Joseph, the bonds between these countries will inevitably lessen. Internally there will be greater discord. Recently, CNN International broadcast highlights of the Democratic party convention around the world with a banner headline that read: "Most diverse Democratic convention ever." Another subheading followed on the screen: "Diversity can lead to tension." Ironically, as this particular news item was being covered, Senator Edward Kennedy was on stage. Kennedy was behind the 1965 change in immigration law that has led to profound demographic changes. At the time he said that Americans would not be inundated with immigrants or notice any difference in the composition of the country's population. These changes may seem unimportant. But consider that religious freedom came about first in the English-speaking countries through the Protestant Reformation and the proliferation of Protestant sects. Not until the primacy of the English-speaking nations was secured in the middle of the 18th century was religious freedom itself secure.

For some consequences of all this, read here: http://www.ucg.org/booklets/US/