Do You Think We Should Use The Immigration Policy Of The Founding Fathers Which Was If You Were

How do people compare the immigration of our founding fathers, to current South Americans?

I’m not aware of such comparisons by other people.When I compare them I see:The European colonists who immigrated to the Americas killed upwards of 30 million natives, intentionally through warfare, or unintentionally through disease; stole their land; and in some cases reduced the natives to serfdom (encomiendas).The current South Americans enter the United States illegally to work for us for low wages, or to seek protection from threats against their lives and property in South America.

What would the Founding Fathers think of illegal immigration from Mexico or refugees from Muslim countries?

As with every such speculative question about the founders, some would have and some wouldn’t have.Some founders did oppose immigration by passing the Alien and Sedition Acts during the John Adams administration. The alien part of this act was intended to stop French immigrants because the United States was on the verge of a war with France. Many immigrants supported the Republican Party (no relation to the current Republican Party) rather than the incumbent Federalists Party.We can guess from the early immigration history which founders might have supported or opposed immigration, but the circumstances were so different that such comparisons would be mostly irrelevant. We have to base our policies on our own judgment. That’s what the founders intended.

Was America founded on immigration?

There’s two stages of immigration that ‘made’ America - a third is happening now.Firstly, the colonization of America by English settlers after 1607, should not really be called ‘immigration’ by any reasonable sense. It was a violent seizing of Native land and conquest by a superior force that allowed Englishmen to take the area of the 13 colonies.Secondly, the mass immigration of German, Irish, and Eastern European peoples during the second half of the 19th century was a key instrument in America’s development and in all regards is what ‘America was founded on immigration’ means.Germans, Irish, Africans, and the Scots-Irish (who are now ‘Americans’). Notice how few are English. Almost all of the country uses these German and Irish surnames (aside from the black population in the South) — and they proved to be important electoral blocs in the Gilded Age.Lesson here? Long-term demographic displacement of the native English population is 100% feasible given the amount of new immigrants.Was America founded on immigrants? Not at all. The Founders were hardly immigrations and one of the first acts they passed would hardly show egalitarian attitudes:Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia“The original United States Naturalization Law of March 26, 1790 provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. This law limited naturalization to immigrants who were free white persons of good character. It thus excluded American Indians, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks and later Asians although free blacks were allowed citizenship at the state level in certain states.”But through large acceptance of immigrants in the late 1850s and egalitarian ethnic statues in the Reconstruction Amendments, America became a nation of immigrants.Or, rather, these groups became Americans. During and after World War 1, German-American identity was heavily assaulted and largely assimilated. Irish identity has survived - largely due to connection with Catholic religious identity and the strategic placement in the Northeast. In other words, the Irish are still a distinct ethnic group; so are Hispanics; Germans are not.The Germans present a unique case (white & Protestant but culturally distinct): I don’t think that same process is possible with the Irish or Hispanics or Eastern Europeans and certainly not Africans. So we enter the multicultural phase of America, not the assimilationist phase of the early 20th century.

What kind of immigration policy did Lee Kuan Yew formulate that allowed him to integrate foreign talent while at the same time not destroying homegrown talent, all the while without creating a cultural clash we often see in Europe?

The short and easy answer is that he didn’t. Lee Kuan Yew inherited a country from David Marshall’s government which is technically entirely foreign talent. It would have made little sense to put focus on an immigration policy when the problem of his time was to integrate existing foreign talent (a.k.a, everyone at that point)In the early years the priority was to work with what he had, only reaching out of the country for experts in particular fields. Consequently, the PAP didn’t formulate the existing immigration policy until the end of his tenure as Prime Minister, when it became evident that relying on homegrown talent was going to be entirely insufficient, as a consequence of the Stop At Two policy.As for the lack of a cultural clash, well, eugenics and social engineering can go a long way if the sitting government decides it is superior to your personal freedoms.

What might the founding fathers (USA) have thought of todays immigration laws? Would they have agreed to letting a caravan of thousands just freely enter the US?

Yes, and they did.The U.S. had open borders until the very end of the 19th century, and it wasn’t until the 1920s that we began our more restrictive immigration regime. The Founding Fathers welcomed refugees from foreign lands coming to better their lives and help build America.Most Americans, my Irish-German self included, are descended from people who came in boatloads of hundreds and thousands of refugees, in waves of immigration far larger than what we’re experiencing now.That’s why the poem at the Statue of Liberty reads as it does:“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries sheWith silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”America was, until recently, the beacon of Liberty to the world. We reaped the reward of all of those immigrants building our great nation together.The large majority of Americans are descended from people who would have been “illegal immigrants” under today’s laws.