“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

“Illegal immigrants are to immigration what shoplifters are to shopping.”

“Moreover, it is curious how democracy favours breeding over immigration. Offspring have a presumed right to citizenship, while potential immigrants do not. Imagine a polarized state consisting of two opposing ethnic groups. One increases its size by breeding and the other by immigration. Depending on who holds power, the group that grows by immigration will either be prevented from growing or it will be accused of colonialism. But why should democracy favour one indigenous group over another merely because one breeds rather than increases by immigration? Why should breeding be unlimited but immigration curtailed where political outcomes are equally sensitive to both ways of enhancing population? Some may seek to answer this question by arguing that a right to procreative freedom is more important than a right to immigrate. That may indeed be an accurate description of the way the law actually works, but we can question whether that is the way it should be. Should somebody’s freedom to create a person be more inviolable than somebody else’s freedom to have a friend or family member immigrate?”

“Reaching out to immigrants promotes national security. Following theJuly 7, 2005, London subway suicide bombings by British-born Muslimterrorists, Boris Johnson, a member of Parliament, noted that Americansdid not grow their own suicide bombers, giving credit to Americansfor acculturating its immigrants.”

“A town without a bookshop is a town without a soul.”

“Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.”