The Trouble with the 'We are a Nation of Immigrants' Argument

National Review ^ | 11/19/2015 | Charles C.W. Cooke

[SMARTY]

All MY grandparents came here in the ‘20’s... they left Turkey (were thrown out) and were glad to be Americans. They had NO allegiance to the Turks and were themselves refugees because of Muslim atrocities in Asia Minor.

Since America wasn’t letting JUST ANYONE in... they had to pass a physical and a mental exam.

Once here, they were proud to be American and couldn’t assimilate fast enough.

Their politics were THOROUGHLY American and their identity was AMERICAN...to the core.

During the second war and the Korean war, Greek boys, who were only first generation American citizens, enlisted and were proud and honored to serve.

MY grandparents expected and GOT no special treatment or consideration! They were just plain elated to BE HERE and welcome to avail themselves of the many opportunities, and to WORK for themselves!

There IS an incontrovertible and colossal emotional and practical difference between MY grandparents and the crowd of greedy, disrespectful, treasonous, hateful creeps who mock and insult America WHILE demanding entry!!!

Yes there is a GREAT difference and I personally resent that any sort of comparison can be made.

[Albion Wilde]

Many of my ancestors were here before the first white man set foot onshore. Others, from Europe, were here 200 years before the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. They didn’t immigrate to the United States; they were born here.

[Nea Wood]

As the late, great Terry Anderson used to say, just because we “used to” do something, or “have always” done something, doesn’t mean we always have to do it. Yeah, we “used to” let in a lot of immigrants. (Back when we had a frontier that needed to be settled, or back when most of the immigrants were from Europe, or back when immigrants had to cross an ocean in the steerage compartment of a ship, and thus were very motivated to become Americans, or back when there wasn’t the welfare state we have now, etc., etc.) But we also “used to” have slavery, segregation, women not allowed to vote, and lots of other things that we STOPPED doing because they don’t work for us anymore. Immigration doesn’t work for us anymore. We don’t need all those people. We’ve got homeless and unemployed here already.

Bottom line, this country is our HOME. We have a right to say who comes here, and how many come here, and under what conditions, and what rights they do or do not have once they come here. It doesn’t matter a whit what we “used to” do. It’s time for an immigration moratorium. Period.

[Jeff Head]

'Nuff said.

[Dante3]

There is a difference between those who came here legally and whose culture is compatible with ours - and those who invade this country, hate us, pose a danger to us, and whose culture is incompatible with ours.

In the past there were plenty of jobs. This is no longer the case. There is nothing to be gained by admitting invaders whose goal is to destroy us. Of course women can also be terrorists and they will train their children and grandchildren to be terrorists as we have seen, for example, with the Somalis.

There is nothing to be gained by admitting Syrians - no they are not refugees - only a great deal to lose.