“Immigration policy should be
generous; it should be fair; it should
be flexible. With such a policy we
can turn to the world, and to our own
past, with clean hands and a clear
conscience.”
―
John F. Kennedy,
A Nation of Immigrants
“The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century.”
―
John F. Kennedy,
A Nation of Immigrants
Italians came for economics, not religion nor repression.
We say same of Mexicans that we said about Irish & Italians.
Opponents have called to stop immigration since 1797.
Emigration decision brings incalculable uncertainty.
Limiting specific nations defies "all men are created equal".
National origin quotas are indefensible racial preferences.
In order to remove existing barriers to the reuniting of families, 2 additional improvements in the law are needed.
First, parents of American citizens, who now have a preferred quota status, should be accorded nonquota status.
Second, parents of aliens resident in the US, who now have no preference, should be accorded a preference, after skilled specialists and other relatives of citizens and alien residents.
These changes will have little effect on the number of immigrants admitted. They will have a major effect insofar as they relieve the hardship many of our citizens and residents now face in being separated from their parents.
These changes will not solve all the problems of immigration. But they will insure that progress will continue to be made toward our ideals and toward the realization of humanitarian objectives.
Source: A Nation of Immigrants, by John F. Kennedy, p. 50 Jan 8, 1963
Yeah- Trump is just the same as Kennedy.......LOL...
