re: Immigration in the time of the Founding Fathers

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I agree with Thomas Jefferson when he said immigration is "a right which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice, has placed them." and that America should be open those people.

I also agree with Thomas Paine that the United States should be "the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty."

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Haha- seems like you just read some Wikipedia entries. I sense such deep-seated conviction in your "I agree" statements. You truly sound like a man of principle and deep thought.