Argumentative Immigration
... We should be more open with our immigration so that we can share our “amber waves of grain” with the starving, our public education system with the illiterate and our health care with the sick. ... Perhaps the most common argument for immigration is that we are a nation of immigrants. ... Their immigration was, however, more gradual, over a much larger period of time and so they have had time to merge not only culturally but biologically, through intermarriage, into one true nation. These nations restrict immigration to keep their ethnicity from being diluted. ... By allowing more immigration, we are only strengthening our American-ness. ... Economics play a big role in the immigration debate. Opposition claims that immigrants, both legal and illegal, hurt our economy, while immigration’s advocates claim that immigrants serve as a boost to our economy. Immigration’s opposition often points out that immigrants are more likely to be on welfare or other social-assistance program, but they fail to mention that high use of theses programs is almost exclusive to refugees from war-torn or Communists nations.