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By binyamin appelbaum
Produced by Jillian Weinberger
Donald Trump has promised to severely curtail legal and illegal immigration as he takes office for the second time. In this episode of “The Opinions,” the writer Binyamin Appelbaum argues that while the United States needs to improve its immigration enforcement, the country also desperately needs immigrants for cultural and economic vibrancy. Immigrants, Appelbaum explains, are the country’s “rocket fuel,” and he argues for specific legal changes to ensure the United States’ immigration policy matches its national interests.
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Since last year, I have spent a lot of time reporting on immigration. And in particular I’m looking to perceive what immigration means in this country, what is damaged in the existing system, and how we can fix it.
Today, at the moment when Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, I looked at, with concern, his plans to begin to suppress immigration. I think that is, without a doubt, the case that the United States will have to say who enters and works and works on this Council, however, it would be a deep mistake to reduce immigration or verify to expel other people who already live here.
The United States wants immigration. Immigration is the fuel of this nation. This brings other people to this country who bring creativity, ambition, and resources with them. Immigrants are other people who have the skills, the qualification, and the dose to make what is a very complicated vacation for a new country and have a long history of contributing to American society. “They” is almost a funny way to talk about it: we Americans are especially the descendants of immigrants, if not immigrants ourselves.
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