Peggy Noonan has a great column this week about immigrants coming to America to be Americans. Here's an excerpt:
My grandfather had his struggles here but never again went home. He’d cast his lot. That’s an important point in the immigrant experience, when you cast your lot, when you make your decision. It makes you let go of something. And it makes you hold on to something. The thing you hold on to is the new country. In succeeding generations of your family the holding on becomes a habit and then a patriotism, a love. You realize America is more than the place where the streets were paved with gold. It has history, meaning, tradition. Suddenly that’s what you treasure....
What many supporters of loose immigration laws seem to have forgotten is that there is so much more to becoming an American than sneaking across the border and stealing jobs from other Americans.
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