A major issue today is immigration, especially as the COVID-era provision expires and we face the prospect of a new mass surge across the border.
On the one hand, we are a nation of immigrants. Nearly all of us or our ancestors, except for members of Native American tribes, came from somewhere else. The words on the Statue of Liberty express one of our traditional values: “Give me your huddled masses yearning to be free.”
On the other hand, surely immigration is something the government should control and regulate, as it did in the previous migrations that most of our ancestors were part of. Every nation has to control its borders, or borders are meaningless. And those who sneak in and are here unlawfully are behaving illegally.
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