That is
America's story. What the President said in the White House last week did not
recognize that fundamental truth; that people just like my mother and
my grandmother and just like Lindsey Graham's parents came to this
country not because they were engineers, Ph.D.s, or wealthy people,
they came here with the desire to build a life and to build a nation,
and they have done it. When we hear all this talk about merit immigration, let's have merit
selection of the people who are coming to these shores--of course,
there are certain experts we bring in with certain visas to fill needs
in business and research, but, by and large, we bring to this country
people who are desperate to be part of our future, and we also bring
people who want to be part of their family. We hear this phrase, ``linked migration''; that somehow or another,
if we bring one immigrant in, they are going to bring in 100, and some
of them may not be desirable. What we find overwhelmingly is just the
opposite is true. It is family unification.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that immigrants are not engineers, Ph.D.s, or wealthy people, but come to build a life and a nation.
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