The Most Pro-Immigrant Nation In The World?

We all agree that the USA has areas of improvement when it comes to immigration, but there is one fact that should not be forgotten in any discussion involving immigration. Compared to the rest of the world the USA is the most pro-immigrant. The Washington Times, in discussing the current immigration bill before congress, documents this,

Ronald Reagan once said a foreigner can go to Germany and never become a German, to France and never become French, to Britain and never become English. America is the only nation where a person can move and become an American.


No nation has widened its gates to newcomers with greater generosity than the United States over the past 25 years. Over that period, we admitted nearly 20 million new Americans — from every part of the globe. That is more immigrants than were admitted by all other industrialized countries combined.

The percentage of Americans not born here has risen from 6 percent in 1970 to 11 percent today. That is a lot of additional people, but it's also worth noting that in many times in our past 15 percent to 20 percent of our population was foreign born. We are less a nation of immigrants today than we were in the first half of the 20th century.


That has been our formula for economic success. More than any other nation, we allow the dispossessed from around the world come here and build a better life.

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  1. hispanicpundit.com Hispanic Pundit » Two Ways At Looking At The Same ThingOctober 16, 2004 at 11:31 PM

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