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United States of any decade in this nation's history. A panel of social science scholars

concluded their assessment of U.S. society with the observation that "America's biggest

import is people" and determined that "at a time when attention is directed to the general

decline in American exceptionalism, American immigration continues to flow at a rate

unknown elsewhere in the world" [Oxford Analytica 1986, 20]. Unlike earlier mass

immigration periods to the United States the present day wave of immigration to the U.S.

show "no sign of imminent decline" [Bouvier 1991, 18]. "In today's world setting,

international migration is a discretionary action that is regulated by the specific actions of

the governments of individual nation-states." There is no international obligation for any

nation to allow others to enter or to work, in fact, most nations do not admit immigrants

Mass immigration has played a significant role in the economic history of the

United States, nevertheless the harsh fact is that what may be necessary and beneficial at

one time, may not be so at another. The demand for labor is being affected by

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