Summary Of Our Brave New World Of Immigration By Victor Davis Hanson

America Founded on Immigration When reading “Our Brave New World of Immigration” by Victor Davis Hanson, he argues that we ask too little of our immigrants in today’s society, and that we have entered a new world of immigration that allows immigrants to not be responsible human beings in society today. After viewing the title of the essay, I expected to hear an empowering essay on how far immigration has come. However, after reading the essay I perceived the authors’ persona to be belittling towards immigration. Also, he seems to have tunnel vision towards undocumented immigrants, by not considering that the undocumented immigrants, he speaks of may not even be undocumented immigrants. Hanson uses a high level of drama to emphasize how upset

Here, Hanson writes, “Such mayhem is no longer an uncommon occurrence here. I have had four cars slam into our roadside property, with the drivers running off, leaving behind damaged vines and trees, and wrecked cars with phony licenses and no record of insurance. I have been broadsided by an undocumented driver, who ran a stop sign and then tried to run from the collision” (566). If the drivers are running off, then how does he know that these occurrences are because of undocumented immigrants? He does not go into detail or explain how these people leaving the scene of an accident are undocumented immigrants. Hanson only states what happened to him, but not that these are undocumented immigrants causing the problems to happen. In the quotes listed above he implies that these incidents are rising due to undocumented immigration, however, he cannot prove that these four occurrences were undocumented immigrants because the driver left before he even found out who they

Hanson writes, “We have entered a new world of immigration without precedent. This current crisis is unlike the great waves of the nineteenth-century immigration that brought thousands of Irish, Eastern Europeans, and Asians to the United States” (566). “Today, almost a third of all foreign born persons in the United States are here illegally, making up 3 to 4 percent of the American Population” (566). Hanson states that we are in a current crisis due to immigration, but then made a clear contradiction by stating that immigrants only make up 3 to 4 percent of the American population. The definition of a crisis is a time of intense difficulty, trouble or danger. Three to four percent of the American Population can hardly be considered a crisis. For Hanson being a specialist in military history, he doesn’t even consider that the majority of the American population is built off of immigration. Author Michael Katz from “A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America” states “the new wave turned the United States into the first nation to mirror humanity” (761). One of the greatest things about living in America is that this is the land of opportunity for all, and because of immigration that is one of the key components that make America so