Of Course Most Immigrants Come from S***hole Countries. So What?

[EasyAce]

The whole point of America is that it doesn't matter where you come from. It matters what you do when you're here.
By Nick Gillespie
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/12/of-course-most-immigrants-come-from-shth/print

Big Daddy is in trouble again, this time for allegedly calling Haiti and most African nations "shithole countries." President Donald Trump denies the specific phrase, but let's give him a pass on this one, because he's right in the largest sense possible: Most immigrants who come to America do indeed come from places they'd rather not live or work. By definition. Whether their homelands are technically shitholes or something less offensive to contemporary ears isn't really a question. People come here because they think it's going to be better than where they're from.

It was true of all of my grandparents and all of your ancestors, too, if you're American. We all have roots elsewhere.

The promise of America, since before its founding as a country, is precisely that you can start over here . . .

. . . And it bears restating, over and over again: The point of America is not where you're from, it's what you do when you show up here. And we know exactly what immigrants, whether legal or not, do when they get here. They pay taxes, including Social Security taxes that they have no chance of ever seeing again. They commit crimes at far lower rates than native-born counterparts. They "are responsible for significant economic growth." They start businesses at higher rates and use welfare at lower rates than their made-in-the-U.S.A. analogues. They fight our nation's wars.

Trump is right to stress that people originally granted "temporary protected status" cannot and should not expect to have that status constantly extended. He's right, too, that Congress should fix the issue of "dreamers"—of kids brought here illegally as minors or born to illegals—once and for all via legislation. But he and all the nativists are wrong in thinking that America, this great, bruising, hulk of a nation, would be better off with fewer immigrants from fewer shitholes (the Republican Party is calling for a 50 percent reduction in legal immigration). It's the people fleeing shitholes who have helped to make this country great. And isn't that what Trump promised us back in 2016?

[dfwgator]

Does this guy think there's any such thing as too many immigrants?

[goatprairie]

According the Center For Immigration Studies almost 50% of Haitian immigrants are on almost full welfare. There is a difference between legal and illegal immigrants. By many studies, illegal immigrants count for an outsize share of crimes.
I am all for legal immigrants who can help the country.....wherever they're from. I am opposed to illegal immigrants, many of whom get on welfare, stay there, and commit crimes larger than the average for all groups.