The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“I reported recently about the dismal 58 percent of Americans who are proud or very proud of their country. We need to fix this by making American values the defining factor in America First. America First cannot mean an America without immigration. As former Sen. Phil Gramm recently noted in the Wall Street Journal, “From 2000 to 2023, 40 percent of Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics were won by immigrants. — Time for New Immigration law, Star Parker The Brunswick News. 7/17/25 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: The writer suggests that to be proud of ourselves as Americans we must embrace immigration as a part of “American values.” This, she maintains, is how we can uphold America First. Furthermore, thanks to immigration, we have lots of Nobel Prize winners.
Something truly maddening about immigration advocates is that they praise immigration without ever defining it. To illustrate, one might praise water, but exactly what kind of water, and what quantity? Are we talking about clean water or polluted water? Are we talking about water controlled by reservoirs, or raging foods or tsunamis?
When immigration advocates praise “immigration,” what they typically mean is the kind of it that we have today. It is the ongoing massive wave of immigration we’ve experienced for the past fifty years. In its wake we suffer divisive diversity, suppression of wage levels, burdens on social services, and stress on our infrastructure and the environment.
Surely we need a new kind of immigration. We can make provision to have Nobel caliber immigrants, without the inundation of other immigrants who don’t necessarily benefit us. To illustrate, about half of legal immigrants come on the basis of family connections to other immigrants who have already settled here. If we want to promote America First, national interest should be the standard for weighing immigration policy, not family connections, or the agendas of vested interests seeking cheap labor and cheap votes from mass immigration.
Immigration could be beneficial as a regulated stream of newcomers. This is a far cry from the raging flood we have today.