Increase legal immigration

Guess what these people have in common:

• Albert Einstein

• Enrico Fermi

• John Audubon

• John Muir

• Elon Musk

• Nikola Tesla

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Irving Berlin

• Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Levi Strauss

• Dikembe Mutombo

• Liz Claiborne

• Mariano Rivera

• Melania Trump

• Andrew Carnegie

• Audrey Hepburn

• Yo-Yo Ma

• Ayn Rand

• Elie Wiesel

• Sergey Brin

• Bob Marley

• Sammy Sosa

• Carlos Santana

• Henry Kissinger

• Rupert Murdoch

• Alexander Hamilton

You’ve probably guessed it – each was born outside the United States, and immigrated here.

Most became full, legal American citizens after undergoing the citizenship process, including passing history, civics and English language tests that most American college graduates would flunk.

The list could go on for thousands of pages, but you probably get the drift.

And by the way, you can add to the list a full quarter of the American winners of scientific Nobel Prizes. American technological prowess owes a lot to immigration.

Legal immigration is a strength of America, and always has been. America has been the most attractive place on earth for immigrants for a long time – due in part to the role of immigrants in making it so.

Do build the wall. Do secure the Mexican border. Do deport at least the illegal aliens who are criminals. Do require businesses to check the immigration status of employees, and do impose substantial fines on those who hire illegal ones.

Illegal immigration over the last generation became a tool of the anti-American left. Leftists intent on destroying Western Civilization used it to import the tools of destruction. Only slightly less bad are Democrats who used it to recruit a Democrat constituency.

The rest of America has finally seen the destruction wrought. And ironically, the leftists misread the political sentiments of the only immigrants who can vote legally – the legal ones. Those immigrants who worked tirelessly to come here legally – and vote legally – tend not to sympathize with illegal ones who want to cut the line, and tend not to vote for leftists or Democrats who want to help them do so.

One of the most racist assumptions of the Democrats was that legal Hispanics favor illegal immigration simply because many of the illegal immigrants have brown skin.

OK, the Democrats overplayed their hand. But let’s not overplay ours. We would be foolish to turn away the brave, the entrepreneurial, the smart, the industrious, the legal.