1152: David Friedman – Millions of People Would Like to Become Americans

There are people, probably many millions, who would like to come here, live here, work here, raise their children here, die here. There are people who would like to become Americans, as our parents and grandparents did. If we want to be honest, we can ship the Statue of Liberty back to France or replace the outdated verse with new lines, ‘America the closed preserve. That dirty foreigners don’t deserve’ —David Friedman