Jason
Professor
English 1020-52
14 October 2004
Questionable Immigration Myths
David Cole’s “Five Myths about Immigration,” while not a persuasive argument, is obviously a personal issue for the author who believes Americans treat immigrants poorly. He introduces the reader to “Know Nothings,” or “Native Americans,” who blame every problem in America on the immigrants (Cole 189-90). In the introductory paragraph, Cole attempts to obtain the reader’s sympathetic feelings as he writes with great passion when he describes the mistreatment his Irish Catholic immigrant ancestors endured (190). This in turn raises the question of how objective he could remain when presenting his arguments. Coles’ attempts to disprove the five myths about immigrants are not effective as his tone is often too personal, clouding his judgment, and his statistics and some data are either lacking credibility or logic.
The first myth is that “America is being overrun with immigrants” (190)......
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