“How can a nation of immigrants decide that NO MORE immigrants will be allowed? It somehow seems the height of hypocrisy and ingratitude to follow that.”
Horse puckey, the problem is not with immigrants, it is with ILLEGAL aliens entering the country by the millions. The same federal government that sent a hundred agents to return one little boy to Castro’s hellhole will not enforce the law against the millions of illegals who have entered since Elian Gonzalez was corralled at gunpoint and sent back to Cuba.
Well, the illegals come here because they KNOW that the gringos will give them work. SO, the problem is with the Americans who give those illegals work. They wouldn't bother to come if they KNEW they couldn't get work.
Plus Americans LOOK FOR and hire the illegals because they KNOW that they can pay them SQUAT and not give them a dime in benefits...no retirement, no injury insurance, no SSI money....NADA.
There are KNOWN street corners where the illegals hang out waiting for work. They always get work. Otherwise they wouldn't hang out there.
We have to look in the mirror for the problem when dealing with THOSE immigrants.
So, maybe there aren't problems with legal immigrants but the illegals get work here because of AMERCIAN greed. No altruism there at all. There is nothing OUR government can do against American greed.