Posted on 06/18/2017 7:18:19 PM PDT by Enlightened1
America belongs to immigrants because immigrants make the nation more powerful, says a former Wall Street Journal writer who is now working for the New York Times.
Immigrants produce more babies, work harder, create more jobs, and have more ideas, claims the revealing column by immigration-advocate Bret Stephens:
I speak of Americans whose families have been in this country for a few generations. Complacent, entitled and often shockingly ignorant on basic points of American law and history, they are the stagnant pool in which our national prospects risk drowning
Bottom line: So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Maybe they should leave, so that we can replace them with new and better ones: newcomers who are more appreciative of what the United States has to offer, more ambitious for themselves and their children, and more willing to sacrifice for the future. In other words, just the kind of people we used to be when we had just come off the boat
Im the child of immigrants and grew up abroad, I have always thought of the United States as a country that belongs first to its newcomers the people who strain hardest to become a part of it because they realize that its precious; and who do the most to remake it so that our ideas, and our appeal, may stay fresh.
That used to be a cliché, but in the Age of [President Donald] Trump it needs to be explained all over again. Were a country of immigrants by and for them, too. Americans who dont get it should get out.
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I wouldn't say that is true at all. There was a time when America had no welfare state and needed workers in a highly productive industrial society. The USA went post industrial and now we need ZERO immigration. Immigration of all kinds needs to stop for many decades if the USA is to survive.
Newcomers who illiterate and unskilled, 87% of whom end up on welfare for life, and hate and want to bring down America.
You are 100% Correct.
They get to pay the freight.
You first, Bret.
The New York Times is trying too hard... coming across as desperate rather than shocking.
You're right - maybe the best term is 'boring'..
I don’t think that these MSM idiots realize that if CWII were to actually break out here in the US,
That they’ll be at the top of the list....
I wondered what ever became of Bret Stephens. His column disappeared from the WSJ a few weeks ago. He was an early, ardent and committed Trump hater. It looks like he landed where he’ll be right at home. I never realized he was this much of a loon, though....
Well I guess we get to keep the first lady and first kid. We need national conceal carry it will break cali libs just a little more. Everyday day push them. No illegals means no California advantage. Nigel farage for governor
First, I question his statistics. What are the actual numbers, and where did he get them?
Second, he makes no allowance for race, social or economic status. Divide his categories on those parameters and the results would not look the same.
Third, as the son of a father whose family has been in Maryland for 300 years, and a mother whose parents were foreign-born, how would he classify me, and those like me? Am I a child of immigrants (well, grand-child), or the scion of an old nativist line (may even be some Native America Indians in that line, too)?
Translation: We like low wage peasants that don’t talk back.
I think you’re on the low side by +/- 20k.
Really every country is a country of immigrants, if you go back far enough.
I see the NY Times has settled on some bizarre and disturbing philosophical merger between suicide and genocide.
I say deport the media
Apparently, so is Donald Trump.
Once again, another article about “Immigrants”.
This Country has welcomed “legal Immigrants” for generations and will continue to do so.
Our problem is with “Illegal Immigrants”!!
If Bret (glad he left WSJ, although they’ve gone pretty left lately) wrote the article with “Legal” or “Illegal” preceding every “Immigrants”, as appropriate, the article would completely fail to make a coherent point.
The number of babies aborted in America since roe v wade is double that. Upwards of 60,000,000.
If we deported the descendants of Scots Irrish Germans Italian and Poles and Chinese and Vietnamese and other hard working ethnicities to Madagascar- within a couple years it would be a beacon of prosperity and freedom
Then Africa would be demanding its takeover by indigenous tribes of color
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