Lincoln would not be pro immigration if it had meant unlimited entitlements back in his days.
The immigrants Lincoln was in favor of was the group that wanted to come to this country, ASSIMILATE, and add something to the melting pot, not the group that wanted to empty everything out of the melting pot while establishing the same kinds of corruption and separatism that existed in their home country.
We could have open borders, if we didn’t have a welfare state.
We could have a welfare state, if we didn’t have open borders.
Idealy we would have neither.
We can have one or the other, or none, BUT NEVER BOTH!!!!