Keep America Stupider…Seal the Borders!!!

Here’s a great part of yesterday’s Best of the Web Today by James Toranto:

Blogger Harry Forbes notes something quite interesting:

The Boston Globe website published the pictures of each valedictorian in Boston’s high schools and other high school programs. As you thumb through the pictures, it is striking how many of these students are immigrants. So many, that I decided to take some statistics. The Globe listed the country of birth for each student. For some US-born students I guessed that they were 2nd generation immigrants (for instance if they were Vietnamese). Almost 2/3 of the Boston valedictorians are either immigrants or children of immigrants. From my analysis: here is the breakdown of the 38 valedictorians:

1st or 2nd generation US 63.2%
Later than 2nd generation US 32.8%

Born in the US 52.6%
Born overseas 47.4%

Maybe the anti-immigrant slogan should be: “Keep America stupid–seal the borders!”

Amen. I don’t mind the idea of building a wall to secure our borders…but most of the people arguing for secure borders are not also arguing in favor of allowing productive law abiding immigrants access to our nation. Thats why a comprehensive plan on immigration is so important. I hate taking Bush’s side on most anything but he’s right on this one. Keeping the cream of every other nation’s crop out of our country because of the nativist wackos who are most vocal on the wrong side of this argument would be a very stupid thing for our nation to do.

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