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Our nation has gone through immigration problems in the past. I grew up in an area with segregated neighborhoods. There were Micks, WOPs, Pollocks, Hunkies, Swedes and so on; each living in their own neighborhoods. We went to the same high school where we basically got along besides race wars in the 70's. We all spoke American, but many had parents that either didn't or were bilingual. My mom was/is bilingual. Her side of the family came from Finland. My contemporaries and I had two things in common. We were Christians and American.

That was the melting pot of our fathers. It didn't mean that we agreed on everything or didn't fight each other. But we all worshiped the same God and we certainly didn't pray five times a day to a space rock in Mecca and worshiped a pedophile prophet.

Our immigration policy needs to preserve what it is to be American. The two foundational elements are speaking American and being Christian. (Ok, Jews are allowed too, but not the socialist variety. Lol)

Here's the real foundation of America ~ it's a nation that existed even when the Europeans thought it was a bunch of colonies. It existed from the very beginning when rough men with skill set out into a desolate, drought wracked, very dangerous continent to figure out how big it was, and where's the gold!

That's roughly 1541.

BY 1776 things had changed a lot and many more rough men had arrived, and there were houses, towns, stores, some roads ~ not just the rugged animal tracks and the 'warriors paths' here and there.

America's main intersection was in the East on the Old Carolina Road, formerly the Great Warrior's Road of the Iriquois, and the path leading West from what is now Washington DC along what would become US 50.

That maximized travel by water North and South. There was no US 1. Ben Franklin had absconded with the Brits money and not built it.

In the West, the main intersection was the MIssissippi and its tributaries ~ BTW, what we call the Ohio was considered part of the main course of the Mississippi in those days since no one was sure what the longest tributary was ~ but the flow of water in the Ohio is a full 90% of the Mississippi.

That was America ~ somewhere in there, and when the Cahokia MIlitia ~ on the illinois side of the MIssissippi ~ just across from the Spanish Royal Town (Villa de real) we now call St. Louis ~ heard the clarion call of REVOLUTION which asked all patriots to come together with the Congress and General Clark, they grabbed their Spanish Flag and rushed to Spain's one time fort on the St. Joseph River in Michigan and took it back!

I"d read through that part of history many times until I figured out what people were doing here before serious British settlement in the early 1700s. They were building a nation, and the Patriots in Boston, New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and elsewhere knew those folks were out there and would back them to the very end.

I don't think the Founders knew how many of them there were, but they knew they were around and were prepared, unbidden to sacrifice everything for the new nation.