I think many have different views of what they want for America.
I see America as a commercial state, where even a poor person can become rich. And where people from around the world who believe in liberty can come. The only limitations I would seek for immigration are to make sure it isn't enough to destabilize the nation. So many more then we are letting in legally now.
I also see America as revolutionary in nature. Where we don't stop new technologies.. even if they would mean millions losing their jobs. So scientists from around the world, who get held down by their nation's bureaucracies, special interests, eco-nazis or whoever.. can come to America and pursue their dreams.
I see things the same way you do.
In fact, we see things similar to how Ronald Reagan saw them. From his fairwell Address:
The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the `shining city upon a hill.' The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free. I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.
"And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here."