It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so. Freedom and opportunity is the cornerstone of American society, and immigrants continue to embody that freedom. One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.
Immigrants are exactly what America needs.
We agree that a tightly controlled, well-regulated system of legal immigration, like the one we have now, is essential to the security of this country. But scaling back the ability of Americans to reunite with their families will not improve national security, and could severely damage the American family. We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration. To abandon that tradition now would be a tragedy.