Guess what these people have in common:
- Albert Einstein
- Enrico Fermi
- John Audubon
- John Muir
- Elon Musk
- Nikola Tesla
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Irving Berlin
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Levi Strauss
- Dikembe Mutombo
- Liz Claiborne
- Mariano Rivera
- Melania Trump
- Andrew Carnegie
- Audrey Hepburn
- Yo-Yo Ma
- Ayn Rand
- Elie Weisel
- Sergey Brin
- Bob Marley
- Sammy Sosa
- Carlos Santana
- Henry Kissinger
- Rupert Murdoch
- Alexander Hamilton
You’ve probably guessed it – each was born outside the United States, and immigrated here. Most became full, legal American citizens after undergoing the citizenship process, including passing history, civics and English language tests that most American college graduates would flunk.
The list could go on for thousands of pages, but you probably get the drift.
And by the way, you can add to the list a full quarter of the American winners of scientific Nobel Prizes. American technological prowess owes a lot to immigration.
Legal immigration is a strength of America, and always has been. America has been the most attractive place on earth for immigrants for a long time – due in part to the role of immigrants in making it so.
Do build the wall. Do secure the Mexican border. Do deport at least the illegal aliens who are criminals. Do require businesses to check the immigration status of employees, and do impose substantial fines on those who hire illegal ones.
Illegal immigration over the last generation became a tool of the anti-American left. Leftists intent on destroying Western Civilization used it to import the tools of destruction. Only slightly less bad are Democrats who used it to recruit a Democrat constituency.
The rest of America has finally seen the destruction wrought. And ironically, the leftists misread the political sentiments of the only immigrants who can vote legally – the legal ones. Those immigrants who worked tirelessly to come here legally – and vote legally – tend not to sympathize with illegal ones who want to cut the line, and tend not to vote for leftists or Democrats who want to help them do so.
One of the most racist assumptions of the Democrats was that legal Hispanics favor illegal immigration simply because many of the illegal immigrants have brown skin.
OK, the Democrats overplayed their hand. But let’s not overplay ours. We would be foolish to turn away the brave, the entrepreneurial, the smart, the industrious, the legal.
the Aspen beat 
Exactly!🎯
I hear very few, if any, of importance advocating for zero immigration. I think most want the criminals and the freeloaders out
Exactly! Who doesn’t want
more Elon Musks?
Just trying to figure out how to comment. I am obviously tech challenged.
I have written five immigration bills. The main bill has to do with streamlining front door immigration. The other four bills have to do with asylum, border, security, sanctuarycities, and issuing legal status to immigrants who have been here from 5 to 30 years. Legal or not.
This deportation effort is going to a real bitch.
Our idiotic immigration rules say: “A child born in the United States is automatically granted U.S. citizenship, regardless of the parents’ immigration status, under the principle of jus soli (right of the soil), which is enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This means that any child born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen at birth.”
What other country offers this?
Haven’t illegals been streaming unchecked across the border for at least 12 years? (That’s a lot of new Democrat voters, plenty enough to qualify for new and additional Congressional seats in those Democrat states. Which was the whole idea in the first place, regardless of what anybody claims.)
And with them, of course, a lot of new babies born here. Are we going to start deporting American citizens now? (I can just hear the screams.) Glad I don’t have to sort out this nightmare.
This deportation effort is going to be a real bitch.
(So much for spellcheck)
I knew a lot of illegal aliens in Colorado as a police officer from 1966 to 1996. Police were not allowed to ask if someone had legal status. Illegal aliens were most often campesino. Many didn’t read or write and some didn’t speak Spanish well. The did farm work, slaughterhouse work, and the turkey processing plant. If they had local connections they might get janitorial or maintenance work at the university or labor at construction sites. By and large they were honest workers and problems arose because of young men living together and drinking too much.
I live in Mexico now and think we should have employment contractors here to hire Mexicans for specific work on 5 or 10 years visas for them and their wives and children. I got in trouble once for suggesting we send six million U.S. citizens who didn’t want to work to Mexico and invited an equal number of Mexicans up north. Biden skipped the sending bums to Mexico part.
Americans last – blame the NEA