Immigrants Fuel Innovation. Let’s Not Waste Their Potential
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I really don't think we should welcome anyone that chooses to break our laws, overstay their visa, and then cry afoul when they don't get all of the same benefits enjoyed as a citizen.
"What is most maddening about this situation is also what is most hopeful: Granting legal status to undocumented immigrants would unleash massive potential, add an estimated 150,000 new jobs annually, and add $1 trillion to America’s GDP"
What they fail to mention here is that many immigrants can't read or write English, let alone speak it. How will they possibly get jobs that will add anything to our GDP? Many will immediately go on welfare and start to pull money from the system that will never be replaced.
"When we start dividing people into the ones we accept and the ones we reject—the ones we embrace and the ones we demonize—we jeopardize the social compact at the very heart of the American experiment."
You mean like accepting or rejecting Donald Trump supporters? All developed countries have citizenship laws. This really is nothing new. It's not 'Xenophobic' to want our citizens to follow the current laws that are already in place.
"Immigrants have not only made our society wealthier and more productive but also more decent. "
If you mean when the US was founded, yes. But I don't see any proof to back this statement up to the current situation. Immigrants are not better or worse than the current citizens and do nothing to increase 'ethics'.
"How a society treats immigrants is a great test of its decency, and we are failing. Immigrants, with their hopes and energies, should be seen not as threats but as blessings."
The US treats immigrants better than almost any other country in the world. It's pretty disingenuous to cast such a broad brush over the citizens in the US when you aren't getting your way. A better term would be childish.