In the main, we are NOT a 'nation of immigrants'.
We are a 'nation of the descendants of immigrants'..
Moronic
You fully admit you are in America because your forefathers immigrated into the country but you don't want immigrants in the country.
Jesus effing christ on a pair of lollypop sticks - what a cretinous post.
Yes.
I fully admit that I am in America because my forefathers immigrated into the country.
When they came here, there were 31 States.
When they came here, the population was 23,000,000.
There was plenty of land still to be had.
That was 1850.
This is 2013.
There are 50 States.
We're all out of free land to give to newcomers.
Our population today is 330,000,000.
And that's not even counting the 12,000,000 to 20,000,000 lurking in the shadows at the moment.
We cannot employ or house or feed or care for those who are already here.
We don't need more mouths to feed.
Just because a country is
built on immigration does not mean that it is obliged to
keep its doors open forevermore.
Not unless it wants to turn into a Third World $hithole within a handful of generations.
Now
THAT would be
TRULY moronic and cretinous.
So would advocating for same.
And I'm not even suggesting that we discontinue Immigration.
Rather, I light-heartedly suggested that we may want to consider putting a freeze on Immigration - putting a Moratorium on it - for a couple of decades, in order to give our overstrained social safety net and the pocketbooks of those who pay for it a rest.
As I mentioned in my dealings with someone else who seems to have a vested interest in keeping the doors wide open, spitting in the face of logic...
Although I regret that you don't like my opinion, I suspect that I'll learn to live with that unfortunate state of affairs...