'As Milton Friedman has said: You cant have open borders and a welfare state. For roughly the first three centuries of Americas existence, anyone could come here and good luck to them! If they couldnt make it, they went home. About 30 percent did. We skimmed the cream of the world! By the time of the American Revolution, this had created something distinctive about Americans, as described absolutely beautifully by Alexis de Tocquevilles Democracy in America. Even after the Democrats ginned up the welfare machinery, the country maintained the same national character and stayed largely the same demographically because our immigration policy imposed quotas to replicate the nationalities of the people already here.
But in 1965, Teddy Kennedys immigration act intentionally changed the ethnicity of immigrants to favor those from the Third World and freeze out people from countries that had traditionally sent us our immigrants. Since the late 1970s, more than 90 percent of the immigrants to America have been from the Third World. This has led to wider income inequality, a higher crime rate, more unemployment and on and on and on.
The 1965 immigration act was the worst thing that ever happened to this country! Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/coulter-u-s-finished-if-amnesty-passes/#rpXLJKvQlV1UPRgf.99