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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Ron who wrote (79905)6/27/2018 2:23:16 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 363249
 
-- Whether or not we want immigrants-- not an issue until Trump. Generally we wanted immigrants,with some exceptions during national security fights like WWII.

It certainly seemed so. I don't recall a lot of active attention to the question. Over the last decade or so there was chatter about stealing jobs but that was always countered with the bit about jobs Americans won't do, which seemed to satisfy the question until just recently. It would be nice if there were a studied answer to that question rather than just various people's sense of things.

If we're going to have immigration, the idea of the melting pot always made sense to me, perhaps because my family was among the fairly recently melted. I do think that there is such a thing as too much immigration when the melting doesn't happen. National, religious, or ethnic stovepipes are not a constructive thing. We have enough divisiveness in other arenas. Groups don't integrate when either their members are not welcomed into the stew or when there are so many of a group that they can be an island of their own. The former occurs when the newcomers are too different for the purists to stomach. The latter may already be the case with the vast numbers of incoming Latin American working class, lovely as they may be individually or in smaller numbers. I say perhaps because they have spread out all over the country, which lessens the concentration, hence the island-making impact. I think we are best off with smaller numbers from many different places and classes.

There are arguments to be made for and against more vs fewer or which kind. But we don't talk about such things so there's not much chance of a consensus. All we do is fuss about the mess we have on our hands.

I'm pretty sure I wrote a post or three saying some of the same things nearly a couple of decades ago.

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