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• [1] Anne from Midtown September 11, 2007 - 01:45PM

  How do his ideas compare/contrast to Lant Prichett?

  
  
• [2] Sunphat Yau from X-nyc-LA 4a bit September 11, 2007 - 01:51PM

  Why do these people keep blurring the lines between legal and ILLEGAL immigration. There are laws in place for a reason, illegals are breaking several living and working and utilizing our hospitals as "free health care networks". One, over staying a visa, or entering a country illegally; two, fraudulent SS# / ID theft-abuse.

  Go look at how Mexico deals with illegals crossing their borders, or Canada and Australia's immigration policies. The European model is not comparable to the US.

  
  
• [3] chestine from NY September 11, 2007 - 01:52PM

  Sir - careful who you call "homegrown terrorists" What did the Brits do to the Irish but to terrorize them - some call it a systematic genocide, with the homegrown terroism being British terrorism over centuries.

  
  
• [4] colin from huntington, NY September 11, 2007 - 01:59PM

  Immigrats are here because of need, something most of US people can't understand.. need of jobs and an improvement in their lives..

  If the US would not support their farmers by going into Mexico for example and selling the US corn at cheaper prices than local prices, then people would stay in their countries.

  I congratulate the writer, he's said many things no one said before..

  
  
• [5] Deianisia from Brooklyn, NY September 11, 2007 - 04:07PM

  I wonder if you and your guest Duc Legrain would be as concerned about the immigrants if you had tenants - as I did - who were criminal Muslims from Lebanon and threatened to kill me if I asked for rent. The Police said, "We have orders from The Mayor, 'Don't bother the immigrants.' If these guy hurt you let us know."

  After losing many months rent - thousands of dollars that almost impoverished me (for I had to pay to mortgages) - finally got these tenants to the preliminary Housing Court. When I told the Judge, they were illegal, the Judge said, "Madam don't repeat that. If they hear you they can sue you for violating their civil rights and you could lose your house paying them damages.

  
  
• [6] deniz from switzerland September 11, 2007 - 05:15PM

  As an American-Turk living in Switzerland (my parents were immigrants to America), my heart sinks when I bike past political ads like this daily:

  http://www.typo3start.ch/sites/ausschaffungd/

  Sure there are problems with immigration in America- it is not a perfect process. I know because I worked with refugees in the American South, but things are definitely better than in Europe.

  
  
• [7] Jean September 11, 2007 - 06:42PM

  I agreed with many of Mr. Legrain's opinions, but then he lost some credibility when he said it's easy to get a work visa in the UK. Oh, if only it were true!!!!

  
  
• [8] David Stein from Larchmont, NY September 11, 2007 - 10:38PM

  I would like to ask Mr. Legrain whether anyone has looked at the last 100 American Nobel Prize winners and determined how many would today be American if they, their parents or grand-parents had been subjected to the present restrictive immigration laws of the USA.

  
  
• [9] peter from switzerland September 12, 2007 - 04:12AM

  excellent guest. only weak point was his claim that those in the rich world can work where they want; it is not easy for americans to get work visas in europe, for example.

  to address deniz above: what evidence do you have to back up your claim that american immigration policy is better than europe? the xenophobic rhetoric you reference also exists in the united states.