Folks USED TO settle here, intent on leaving their native land and adopting a new one ... THOSE immigrants were settlers and welcomed with open arms.
What we have today is indeed a nation of invading immigrants with no intention of becoming American but in getting FROM America whatever they can get.
A descendant of an immigrant is not an immigrant. The “native Americans” came here from somewhere else.
The immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s were a boon to this country. When immigration from Europe was stopped by ted kennedy the country suffered.
After the second generation you are no longer an immigrant. We are not a nation of immigrants.
A nation of immigrants who came to contribute, not pilfer.