Immigration Wars: Forging An American Solution - Plot & Excerpts
So wrote the commentator Robert J. Samuelson in a September 2012 Washington Post column titled “The American Dream’s Empty Promise.”1 The term has become so devoid of meaning and so illusory, Samuelson argued, that we “ought to drop it from our national conversation. It’s a slogan that shouldn’t survive—but it will endure precisely because it’s an exercise in make-believe.” What a sobering commentary on the state of our nation. And certainly in terms of economic opportunity, of the next generation climbing to greater heights than their parents’, it may reflect reality, unless and until we change it. But immigrants are one group of people for whom the American Dream remains vibrant and tangible. Millions of people continue to aspire to American citizenship, and make tremendous sacrifices and take enormous risks to attain it, in order to earn a share of the American Dream. For them it is not a slogan; it is the purpose. And because they cherish the opportunity to become Americans, immigrants will always be necessary to keep the American Dream alive.
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