Now that White House aide Stephen Miller has introduced Trump's new immigration plan that cuts by 50% the number of immigrants allowed in to the country and requires that they speak English, have a job, and bring money with them, his Mar a Lago request for 30 H2B visa workers makes more sense. The idea that it creates deliberately a permanent underclass of workers seems not to have occurred to those in the White House. It is appalling that Trump's proposal might even be taken seriously but even more appalling was Miller's attitude and performance. That was capped by Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying, "That was fun!" when she took the microphone back.
Most of us have forebears not even that far back who came here with no English language skills and nothing but hope for a future including Trump's own grandfather. There are plenty of places in the United States where German is still the dominant language. My grandfather was born in Binghamton, NY, but he was the first in his family to be born in the United States. He ended up speaking three languages, the German and Yiddish that he spoke at home and in his community, and the English he learned at school. He also ended up a multimillionaire, starting a factory that is still producing goods in the US and moving from an apprentice to a carriage maker to owning a factory that made parts for NASA. Everyone in the United States is enriched by those who only come with dreams.
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