Should America Welcome Immigrants?

 Celebrity Selena Gomez recently made a fool of herself when she posted a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the exportation of illegal immigrants. She quickly deleted her post, but she was mocked on social media for her acting stunt.

Many Americans support immigration because it is good for America. The United States of America was created as a “melting pot” where people from many nations come together to make a strong republic. However, the melting together has not happened in recent years.

America needs legal immigration, but there is no need for illegal immigration. David Harsanyi discussed immigration in his article published at The Daily Signal. 

While I’m also a fan of immigration for economic and patriotic reasons, dismissing the negative cultural externalities – including violent crimes – that can accompany chaotic mass immigration, illegal or not, does the cause no favors.

The fact is we could build a giant bubble around the entire country right now, and the United States would still reign as the most welcoming place for foreigners that’s ever existed. And if we want that title to remain, championing legal avenues and decrying mass criminality and anarchy is the way to go. Because what’s happening now is only going to turn decent people against legal immigration.

In recent years, American citizenship has been transformed from a sacred privilege bestowed on the lucky, gracious newcomer into a right that’s demanded of us by people who break or circumvent the law.

Moreover, illegal immigration is inhumane – and not only to those swept up in the human trafficking and dangers of the southern border.

Democrats talk about people living in the shadows. It’s true. Those here illegally will never be integrated into society. Even if they don’t benefit from welfare programs, they inevitably end up relying on taxpayers. This, too, causes resentment.

The Left acts as if we have a sacred oath to accept every refugee, but they have done virtually everything possible to destroy the public’s trust in the system….

As Europe has shown us, accepting unlimited numbers of refugees from the same area at the same time with the same ideas and the same problems leads to ethnic enclaves, poor integration, and reactionary nativist politics.

Though it’s not just refugees or illegal immigrants who can give immigrants a bad name.

Take the student visa problem. Just because your Gulf state petro-daddy or Chicom apparatchik parents can pay your way doesn’t mean we have any responsibility to host you. Colleges love foreign students because they pay cash for the whole ride, but too many of them are flying terrorist flags and creating havoc on our campuses. The spectacle almost surely makes normies less inclined to see immigration as a societal positive. Understandably so.

Leftists and civil libertarians had a breakdown when President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revoke student visas from noncitizen college students who participate in pro-Hamas protests.

Listen, I’m a staunch supporter of unfettered speech rights of pro-terrorist noncitizens in their own countries. Everyone has an inalienable right to speak freely, but foreigners do not have an inalienable right to gin up hatred against Americans on the Upper West Side….

People often like to virtue signal, insisting that the United States is a “nation of immigrants” or a nation of “ideas” rather than one of blood and soil. Those are both true statements to some extent. One of the “ideas” we had, though, was to be a sovereign nation that houses a set of norms, traditions, civic institutions, culture, laws, rights, and virtues. We’ve been astoundingly successful at absorbing immigrants on a massive scale because the expectation was everyone would embrace our values.

Does anyone think we’re getting better at assimilating immigrants?

It has been many years since I went shopping in local stores and heard only the English language and sometimes Alaska Native languages. It is more common now for me to hear languages from Central and South America or Southeast Asia. Even clerks speak to each other in languages other than English. I am not opposed to foreign languages, but I mention them to show one way that immigrants are not assimilating into our community.