A nation derided for doing the right thing
By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times - Thursday, January 26, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Immigration, both the legal and the illegal kind, is destined to be a contentious issue in America forever. That’s the price of living in the place where everybody wants to be.
This tempts some people to lead with their emotions when they talk about immigration. If you engage these folks in a conversation about immigration, you have to expect to be called Scrooge (or worse) if you say America’s borders must be secure and there must be a fair, firm and orderly way to accommodate newcomers.
Ronald Reagan was fond of reminding everyone that America is the only place in the world where a newly minted citizen is as much a citizen as someone whose ancestors arrived centuries earlier. The spawn of the first passenger who stepped off the Mayflower in 1620, carefully cultivated social pretensions notwithstanding, is no more an American than a plumber’s apprentice with dirt under his fingernails and mud on his shoes, who earned his citizenship only last week.
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