Yesterday, Walter Russell Meade, the veteran columnist for the WSJ, ended an article of his by saying that so long as our nation keeps creating new technologies that produce vast amounts of wealth — and we continue to integrate immigrants — we will remain a leading nation.
He’s right.
Mr Meade wrote from northern Germany, a stop in a multination tour he’s been on for the last few weeks.
His assertion is timely, now that we’re only two days away from the first of two presidential debates and where the matter of immigration will be a central subject.
Trump loves to make big statements. From promising massive deportations if elected to denouncing immigrants as the bane of this country. Who can forget his 2016 statement that ‘Mexicans are rapists’.
And yet, just the other day he spoke of making foreigners who graduate from US colleges eligible for a green card (permanent residency).
He knows full well that his core supporters bear a significant antiimmigrant bias but the reality cannot be ignored — immigrants are key to our continued prosperity.
Trump knows it, too.
One of Trump’s main failings has been to not reach out to his base and say, ‘we must learn to see folks for who they are, not their national origin. If you’re willing to work, create and contribute, we give you the opportunity to make this your land, also.’
Trump’s been unable to say to his followers, ‘We have to learn to look past the color of a person’s…
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