BOOK REVIEW: "Field of Dreams (Outcasts United, by Warren Saint John)," by SOMEBODY, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 4-10 May 2009.

The call-out text here states a simple truth:

The xenophobes and protectionists who argue that immigrants cost jobs have it exactly wrong. Newcomers create jobs and they always have. A report by the Center for an Urban Future recently described immigrants as "entrepreneurial sparkplugs," and the reason is obvious. If they weren't risk-takers, they wouldn't be here.

America in a demographic/economic nutshell.