Reply #5: As the child of immigrants [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

The idea of immigrants making a new home in the U.S. doesn't really scare me.

I will add that I can understand fears that immigrants (especially illegal ones) can depress wages for low-income workers. Still, I think on balance, properly-managed legal immigration is a plus. It made America what it is today and American culture has always been changing. It hasn't been since the early 19th Century that America was defined by WASP culture. First it was changed by the Scots and Scotch-Irish, then by the Germans, then the Irish, then the Italians and Eastern European Jews, then by Japanese, Chinese, and now by Hispanics and more Asians.