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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.
by InclinedPlane 11y ago
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.
- aikah 11y agoAnd you forgot the 19 9/11 hijackers who killed more than 3000 Americans : immigrants .
- linkregister 11y agoI 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_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_...
- sumedh 11y agoTalk about throwing the baby with the bathwater. You will always have some bad apples.
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- tellarin 11y agoYou 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.