Wisdom From the Past
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Perhaps those who {rightly] advocate reform to immigration laws and policy ought to revisit the views of our founding fathers. The intellectual clarity of their statements founded in their wisdom should be a guide to all. " The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment." --George Washington Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association of Ireland, 1783 "Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old inhabitants are not jealous of them; the laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the patronage of great men; and every one will enjoy securely the profits of his Industry. But if he does not brin...