[Smlr_net] The racial price of merit-based immigration

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-------------------- The racial price of merit-based immigration --------------------

Immigration reform aims to attract skilled workers. But what about our minorities?

By Richard Alba RICHARD ALBA, a demographer and sociologist, is coauthor with Victor Nee of "Remaking the American Mainstream." He is a professor at the State University of New York, Albany.

June 19 2007

THE REVIVED immigration bill will again be up for debate in the Senate this week. Amendments will be heard, compromises made. One element that needs that extra look is the way the bill would profoundly shift the priorities of U.S. immigration.

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