Originally Posted by Kittens

You uh... Know that it's literally inscribed on the Statue of Liberty and the Declaration of Independence was heavily pro-immigration, right?

The Declaration of Independence was much more than a proclamation of separation from the Mother Country. It provided the blueprint, the ‘fundamental precepts’, for a new government. Americans broke away from the British Empire in the 1770s, in part, because they rejected restrictions on trade and immigration.