Immigration is one of those subjects that causes many people to fulminate into conniption fits. In such an atmosphere, it’s like trying to reason with a drunk. It’s better to just drop the subject.
That said, I’m in favor of a wall, as much of it as practical. I support an end to chain immigration and the visa lottery, and back e-verify, merit-based priorities, and limits to the total numbers. I don’t need Trump to tell me of their prudence.
Yet – and it’s a big “yet” – immigrants clearly add value to the country. Not all, but a good number. Call it new blood.
In previous posts, I have bewailed the decline of self-reliance. There’s no better example of raw self-reliance than weathering the gauntlet of the cartels, coyotes (the human kind), child abuse, and the Sonoran Desert to get here. Once here, they’ll take any job and work at it till near collapse. Now that’s self-reliance of the resilient kind. The scene cries for respect and admiration.
So, hurray for immigration … if it is managed and we can pick and choose. At all times, any nation could benefit from an infusion of gritty determination.
RogerG