Comment by adamredwoods
13 hours ago
The United States was literally built on the idea of immigration.
https://www.cato.org/blog/founding-fathers-favored-liberal-i...
13 hours ago
The United States was literally built on the idea of immigration.
https://www.cato.org/blog/founding-fathers-favored-liberal-i...
Cato is doing their usual thing here where they lie by omission.
>These foreigners, if not properly disposed of, will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.[1]
-Thomas Jefferson
The Founders had a conception of immigration that is completely at odds with the free for all that exists today, and Cato is partially responsible for people incorrectly thinking that the US was “literally built on the idea of immigration”.
[1] https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/lhbcb/0490...
I can't find that in your reference. Additionally, signed by Jefferson into law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalization_Act_of_1802
Right, a law that made it easier for white people from Europe to become citizens.