“[Is] rapid population [growth] by as great importations of foreigners as possible… founded in good policy?… They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their number, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass… If they come of themselves, they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements.”Of course, the Rubio/McCain betrayal is yet another proof that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
–Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.VIII, 1782. ME 2:118
Odd that this father of our country was so prescient... and that those who SHOULD know better apparently don't.
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