Yea that statue of liberty phrase was crap. Give us your poor/yearning to be free...All a lie. Right.
Of all the idiots on this site, you really hit the top 5 hard.
Yes, that saying the French wrote and put on their gift to us was stupid.
Ansell and Jim, two FReepers who in many ways are really solid political thinkers, allow ANGER to sway them here in their anti-immigration stance, and it surprises me no end to see Jim Noble taking this position. (Ansell, whom I ping out of courtesy protocol, I long ago learned has limited capacity to grasp conservative limited government principles and indulges an exceedingly nasty disposition that includes bearing false witness, so I habitually skip his posts the same way I'll tune-out vitriolic garbage on a radio station, as a way of being kind to myself) ... but Jim Noble?
Jim, let's say you had your way and America was 15 years into a 20-year embargo on ALL immigrants. Education in America, plus work ethics in American youths, are inferior to say the least, certainly inferior on a world-wide scope. You would be forcing companies in America to hire and reward these dolts, you would be limiting the pool of innovative entrepreneurs, to these dolts, and PREVENTING people from other nations who are MUCH better educated and who have a MUCH better work ethic, from contributing so very much of value to the U.S. economy and to U.S. patriotic morale.
Fifteen years into it, informed Americans and informed folks the world over, would be rightly disgusted with the mind-set that so stupidly decided that ending legal immigration would do anything but HARM on every level.
Calls to halt legal immigration are short sighted at best, mean and anger-based at worst.