Are immigrants the only victims of immigration restrictions? Ilya Somin would agree, Somin is a professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law in Virginia. He attended Harvard, Amherst, and Yale Law School. He regularly writes for political blogs as well as focusing on constitutional and property law. We should start by defining the term immigrant. Somin doesn’t make a clear distinction between immigrants who enter our country legally, using our current immigration system, and immigrants arriving under the radar. Somin claims that immigration laws effect the natives of a country just as much as the immigrants. He says that because of the immigrants coming into our country it is placing unnecessary laws upon us. I personally find it hard to agree with his view since he doesn't supply many examples to back up his argument. Immigration laws are not heavily enforced anywhere in America. Native U.S citizens are not, to my knowledge, being regularly harassed about their citizenship while going about their daily lives. Somin compares the effects of immigration laws on natives to racial segregation laws on whites.
It is hard to distinguish which side Somin is leaning towards because he appears to take many views. Perhaps he is just trying to stay objective but it comes across as indecisive. This article was written for the Washington Post, the most widely circulated newspaper in America, so his intended audience was probably conservative white males. I think what Somin is trying to say is that we can’t increase the restrictions on immigration without negatively impacting American Citizens.
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