“A guy I know named Boogie is a brilliant German guy, middle aged, a whiz, can fix anything, great dude, good guy to have around anywhere, anytime.”
That sounds a lot like several American guys I know who have been out of work for years and can’t find a job. I’m sure most of us here know a few personally as well.
Americans first.
I don’t know, granny.
If someone wants to come here and be free and defend freedom, then I cool with that.
I know a few Americans that do not give a flying rip about freedom, and I can’t say that I’m particularly fond of those ones.
Boogie is not only a skilled machinist, he's the kind of guy that would help get any concern off the ground if he committed.
Who employs all those American guys you know?
I stand by my position that it would be suicide stupid to put an embargo in legal immigrants, especially highly skilled and educated ones. They come here and create jobs when they're entrepreneurs. I see it all around me in abundance, here in Southern California. They are fresh blood, and many are patriotic and committed, if new, Americans. How about those American guys you know creating their own jobs? Sorry, but "Americans first" as a justification for barring legal immigrants, STINKS.
It would have prevented my skilled grandfather to immigrate here from Scotland in the early 1900s, and I'll bet it would have prevented someone in your lineage somewhere from ever getting to America, too. It wasn't okay for them but not okay for Boogie because "the time was right back then," it's because it was grounded in a PRINCIPLE. And America became great because of it.
You propose to abandon that principle, and I say that stinks.