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America hasn't bankrupted itself "raising the children of others". America has accepted others into its family, and grown stronger and wealthier because of it.

Thomas Paine: immigrant

Andrew Carnegie: immigrant

Nikola Tesla: immigrant

Igor Sikorsky: immigrant

Albert Einstein: immigrant

Cary Grant: immigrant

William Shockley (co-inventor of the transistor): immigrant

Wernher Von Braun: immigrant

Eddie Van Halen: immigrant

Elon Musk: immigrant

America is a nation of immigrants. They have helped define our identity, our values, and our laws from the very beginning, and they have built and enriched America to an incalculable degree. And not just inconsequential parts of America, entire industries have been founded on their work (Tesla, Sikorsky, Shockley), and historic, nation-defining projects have relied on their work (Paine, Alexander Hamilton, Von Braun). Immigrants are Americans, period.



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You seem to forget that, for example, many of those immigrants supported slavery and brought in many immigrants from Africa.

Or that Texas was once part of Mexico and a bunch of illegal immigrants from the U.S. there declared its independence (and later joined the U.S.).

Or the loads of Chinese that worked on the west expansion (and multiple waves later) whose "assimilation" was nothing close to easy.


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I didn't take the time to look up all 19, but the ringleaders (Mohamed Atta, et. al.) entered on nonimmigrant visas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...


Talk about throwing the baby with the bathwater.

You will always have some bad apples.




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