There is an ongoing debate in today’s world about whether or not immigration is helpful or detrimental to a country. Some say that the door on immigration should be closed, some say it should be wide open, and others take a stand in the middle of both extremes. I believe that the United States of America should take a stand somewhere in the middle by not opening the door to everyone, but letting more in than the toenail that is in the door today.

Immigrants to not hurt our economy because only the most determined are able to withstand the hardships that come with getting into the United States. “Roger Conner, the executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), told a congressional committee in 1981 that the 808,000 legal immigrants and refugees admitted the previous year represented one five-thousandth of the population of the world. "Out of 5,000 impoverished people, we took one, taking the brightest, most able, most energetic, the best organized," he said. "We are taking the cream of each social class by the standards of their society....’We are taking the most energetic and talented.’” We only let in those that are the most ambitious in

these impoverished countries. This in turn is very helpful to the U.S. economy. These people fill jobs that would otherwise not be filled.

I believe that the policy on immigration should be mirrored to the way that it was in the beginning of the 20th Century. That is, not too open, but not closed like it is today. I am not ready to let all that want to enter the U.S. come in freely, because it is the way in which they are forced to get here that weeds out those less willing to work for it. But, on the other hand, too few immigrants are allowed to come into the U.S. today. Only 600,000 or so are allowed in the country every year. When compared to the population of the United States that number is barely even worth mentioning.

Some people are scared of opening America’s door to new immigrants say that America will be overrun by Spanish speaking people and we will become a bilingual society, but Fallows tells us to look back at the German wave of immigration. No matter how hard they tried to hold on to their language and culture they were not able to do so. Through the process of assimilation it eventually died out over time. I can see a prime example right here in Ellis County and its neighboring counties. I have friends whose grandparents speak German and English, their

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