A Nation of Immigrants

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The media narrative today is that America has become “xenophobic” and is turning its back on new immigrants. But that narrative is sharply contradicted by the fact that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In this week’s new video, CRTV host and best-selling author Michelle Malkin explains how ill-conceived immigration policies threaten to destroy the American Dream for everyone.

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0:00.0	Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
0:06.3	These poetic lines engraved on a bronze plaque beneath the Statue of Liberty speak to who
0:11.1	we are, a nation of immigrants.
0:14.9	Until now, as Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer lamented, tears are running down the cheeks of
0:20.6	the Statue of Liberty.
0:22.6	We've turned our backs on those huddled masses, closed our borders, separated families,
0:27.8	hardened our hearts.
0:30.0	Or so you would think if you only read the headlines or watch TV news.
0:34.5	Just one problem.
0:35.9	It's not true.
0:37.9	The United States still maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world.
0:43.4	Generous to a fault.
0:45.4	Because the overwhelming numbers have stymied our ability to assimilate the huddled masses.
0:50.8	50 million residents of America are foreign-born.
0:54.2	In fact, today the United States has more immigrants as a percentage of its total population
0:59.4	than at any time since 1890.
1:02.7	That's why, to give one illustration, 176 different languages are spoken among students in the
1:09.0	New York City school system.
1:11.6	How did we get here?
1:13.5	For starters, America grants permanent residence to a million people every single year.
1:19.7	And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
1:21.6	Because of something you've probably heard refer to as chain migration.
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