A Nation of Immigrants | 5 Minute Video
The media narrative today is that America has become “xenophobic” and is turning its back on new immigrants. But that narrative is sharply contradicted by the fact that the United States maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. In this week’s new video, CRTV host and best-selling author Michelle Malkin explains how ill-conceived immigration policies threaten to destroy the American Dream for everyone.
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Script:
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
These poetic lines, engraved on a bronze plaque beneath the Statue of Liberty, speak to who we are: a nation of immigrants. Until now . . .
As Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer lamented, “Tears are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty.”
We’ve turned our backs on those huddled masses. Closed our borders. Separated families. Hardened our hearts.
Or so you would think if you only read the headlines or watch TV news.
Just one problem: It’s not true.
The United States still maintains the most generous immigration policies in the world. Generous to a fault…because the overwhelming numbers have stymied our ability to assimilate the huddled masses.
50 million residents of America are foreign-born. In fact, today the United States has more immigrants as a percentage of its total population than at any time since 1890. That’s why, to give one illustration, 176 different languages are spoken among students in the New York City school system.
How did we get here?
For starters, America grants permanent residence to a million people every single year. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg because of something you’ve probably heard referred to as “chain migration.”
Chain migration allows immigrants to sponsor not only their immediate family—parents, spouses and children under age 21, but much of their extended family once they gain citizenship: unmarried adult children and any children they might have, married adult children and their children, and brothers and sisters and their children. Princeton University researchers, using the most recently available data, found that immigrants sponsored an average of 3.45 additional relatives each.
So, the one million immigrants granted permanent residence each year potentially adds, over time, another three and a half million.
In addition, an estimated 100,000 refugees and asylum-seekers—people who claim to be fleeing political or personal strife abroad—enter the country annually. From 2008 to 2017, the U.S. gave green cards to well over a million people for humanitarian reasons, allowing them to live and work here permanently. After five years, they can apply for full citizenship.
We’re not done yet. In that same time frame, nearly half a million more people came to America through the diversity visa lottery—a program designed to admit more people from “underrepresented” countries into the U.S.
Diversity visa applicants don’t need a high school education, job skills—or pretty much anything. And, thanks again to chain migration, spouses and unmarried children under 21 of visa lottery winners also get to come to America.
This non-stop flow of new legal immigrants—based on family ties instead of skills, abilities, and allegiance to American values—has, of course, been supplemented by millions who enter the country illegally and stay illegally.
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It is sickening to see the racist disrespect to a nation right to its own sovereignty and existence. Unfortunately this type of hateful extremism is spreading.
USA should obviously like any country stop mass migration, and primarily allow in limited numbers people most similar to their own people, so their own nation isn't displaced by foreigners. This would help especially white Americans who are part of the multiethnic USA, and have deeper connections to the historical roots of the USA, not be subject to discrimination by recent arrivals of foreign descent who have no such connection and disrespect such heritage.
Ok and? America is built upon immigration. Everyone except native Americans are immigrants
Well this is all a bit misleading
What she says at 2:30 is false. She says that those arriving through the Diversity Visa Lottery don't need a high school diploma or job skills. That's not true. To qualify a peson must have graduated high school or have two years of experience woking a job with an SVP score of 7 or greater. SVP 7 means two years of preparation for the job. To name a couple examples, a city bus drive is SVP 4-6. A crane operator is SVP 6-7. A commercial pilot is SVP 6-7.
What this means is that if a man applies through this diversity lottery, and doesn't have a high school diploma, but has two years experience as a commercial airline pilot … he still might not qualify.
Sorry Prager, I just lost a little respect for you on this one.
People who say "This is a nation of immigrants" hate our nation and want to destroy it. Nobody is that stupid. They are nothing but British Empire drones.
Can only imagine how ashamed her parents would be if they saw this video. Anything for the money I guess.
This is a nice propaganda piece.
We are bringing in fytennal through the border and it's killing people.
We got ms13 and jihadist here too. This is the worst place to be.
https://youtu.be/wZEomO2OsAc?si=tJuXatCXjpxam-CE
PragerU is a fraud and should be shut down for spreading falsehood information.
Damn it's incredible how so many conservatives just lap up blatant misinformation. But I guess if they had functional brains, they wouldn't be uncritically watching PU.
So? Since it's you people who cause all that immigration with your stupid regime changes and embargoes, you ahould take them in.
It's funny cuz the first three minutes your like wow ok that's realy cool stuff, Im happy immigrants are treated this well. But then they start talking about solutions?? Bro tell me what the problem is first.
Ms. Mechelle is cute❤
“home” is stolen land anyways
Fancy way of saying your easily replacable for the ruling class.
America is a nation of immigrants. Leagal immigrants. Dispite what the left says, we dont hate people of color. We hate the double standard brought on us by the "elite". People who came here should love this country, not hate it. If you dislike this country or our values, GO BACK HOME!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEomO2OsAc&ab_channel=Mr.Beat
Here is a video shedding some light on what this video is claiming.
The idea that a country of colonizers would be against other people coming to live there amuses me
Fake news! Lol. Do better.
Why don’t you actually use facts?
If chain migration uses a legal system to bring in immigrants, how would ending it bring less illegal immigrants. Wouldn't cutting off an legal access way just turn more towards illegal ones? Also walls don't stop planes, busses, ships or get this, workers from overstaying a work visa, the most common way of illegal immigrants getting into the us.
1:05 Uh, about that… the world population has increased like eight fold since the late 1800s-early 1900s, meaning that there would be a significantly larger amount of any people anywhere compared to the past
You make dissmisinformation videos. Don't trust pragueru they are not here for teaching but for propaganda. You should be ashamed of yourselve as the descendant of immigrants to make such a video.
I mean one of the problems is that the US isn’t an actual nation…..so I don’t see why it is a bad thing that immigrants and their families come. However, it is true the US has an easier immigration system than say, Mexico, which has a very strict immigration system, or many European/Asian countries that have a birth based system. Although, thanks to those systems, if you are American and do descend from European or Asian immigrants, it may be worth looking into whether you can get another passport.
thank you Mr Beat
When they get debunked 😻😻😻
HEY EVERYONE. Here's a 15 minute video debunking this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEomO2OsAc
Summary: Everything this woman spoke on is at BEST misleading, and at WORST, factually incorrect.
Thank you Mr.Beat!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEomO2OsAc
2:44 Blatant lie. Like, surprisingly brazen given it narrowed down on the two things specified on the government site.
"The Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) Program requires the principal DV applicant to have a high school education, or its equivalent, or two years of qualifying work experience as defined under provisions of U.S. law." – US Department of State
The fact they obviously knew these were factors and lied about it is just…awful. That's not to mention the number of other points they made that fall apart under closer examination than just a SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH. Like I'm legit mortified that this video is likely being shown in classrooms as 'fact'.
watch Mr Beat you tube channel debunking all these lies
Most immigrants even if unskilled have a desire to do well and to better themselves, that is why they emigrated in the first place. I would have thought this fits well with traditional conservative ideals.
And they pass this ethos to their children who grow up educated and skilled. I believe this because i lived it myself as a first generation american.
This video was obviously written for u uneducated Americans that need to be fed lies to make them think they are better than everyone else LMAO
Mr. Beat debunked this video
i want american immigration policy before 1965
Every time Democrats present programs for immigration reform Republicans shoot them down. People like Donald Trump want those illegal workers, they can exploit them and use them for a little more than slaves. So many of the countries they come from our countries that the US has destabilized whose economies we have destroyed. Cuba, venezuela, and Central America all countries we've interfered with causing their governments and economies to collapse. Florida didn't seem to Montgomery when they came to the United States and became Republicans.
Germany took 1.3 million immigrants last year. A country a fifth the size of Texas. In comparison the US should at least 40 million immigrants with their "open door policy".
It's actually pretty shameful. Because 70% of Germany's immigrants are war refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. United States war refugees.
I also never have problem with visa's to any country but the US from my country the Netherlands. I had to fill in 10 pages of questions.
Like the Netherlands doing better on almost every list.
Healthcare
Debt
Human rights
Safety
Crime
Happiness
Education
You name it. We're doing it better.
Americans come here for a better life.
We don't go to the US.
The rich come to Europe to live.
They also don't go to the US.
In Luxembourg you can make twice what a American is making and you're in Europe. Switserland, Sweden, Monaco, Gibraltar, Norway, Denmark. You name it. All make more money.
Now somebody is gonna say.. Yeah, but they pay more taxes. Free healthcare, free education and even free public transport in Luxembourg. All cost a fortune in the US.
??? This most be the dummest video i've ever seen! 176 languages in New York. How did we get here!? By shipping thousands of people to New Amsterdam from all over the world. Only native Americans actually can say they speak "American". The language you learn at school is called english. English is a immigrant language!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the Dutch would've won the war from the British you would be speaking Dutch now.
Who is that Asian immigrant narrating??
What are American values!?
Lady liberty is a French statue.
On lady liberty is written "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Germany took 1.3 million immigrants last year. A country a fifth the size of Texas. In comparison the US should at least 40 million immigrants with their "open door policy".
It's actually pretty shameful. Because 70% of Germany's immigrants are war refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. United States war refugees.
Everywhere I personally turn, I see that the majority of immigrants to the U.S. have no respect for our country, morals, values, or customs.
Many of these actually expect Americans to assimilate to their culture.
This is societal suicide if it's not stopped.
Worst video of prageru I’ve seen thus far. Mentions none of the benefits that immigrants bring, and makes it sound like America wasn’t founded by immigrants.
https://youtu.be/wZEomO2OsAc
Self hating woman who would kick down the ladder after her.
There is a certain number of green cards to be given. Getting illegal immigrants out should be enforced…
Most "illegal aliens" (whatever that meaningless word salad means) are people who overstayed their visas, you want to crack down on illegal immigration? Sweet, stop planes from coming in.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Unsubscribed.
Immigrants dont pay US taxes, which is a fact! 😡😠🤬
Trump hates immigrants! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM
Prageru : USA is the friendliest nation
Germany : Ja dat is ein goeien grap
This whole video is a bunch of poorly researched propaganda that takes things out of context or outright misrepresents the original sources. Same goes for most of the rest of their videos, Praguer U is a bunch of charletons.