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<blockquote data-quote="Operational needs" data-source="post: 5345637" data-attributes="member: 43500">I agree, immigrants HAVE made this country better. I doubt you could find too many Americans who disagree with that.&nbsp; I seriously doubt even if we (America) poured every dime at our disposal into some Third World countries that we could bring them up to our standard of living.&nbsp; Look what happened in Afghanistan.&nbsp; We were there for twenty years.&nbsp;&nbsp; True, we did bring up their SOL to some degree, but as soon as we left it reverted back to how it was before we were there.&nbsp; Some countries are so deeply ingrained in their culture that they have no desire to move into the 21st century.&nbsp; There is too much corruption that is a normal part of their daily lives.&nbsp; I’ve met immigrants who had a better SOL of living where they came from but still came here for the American Dream.&nbsp; And then there are others, like an Ethiopian friend of mine who has been a member of their Parliament, an Ambassador, and has held other high level jobs for and in her country.&nbsp;&nbsp; She went to a university in New Orleans and I once asked her why she didn’t move here.&nbsp; She told me because she would be a “nobody” here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Operational needs, post: 5345637, member: 43500"] I agree, immigrants HAVE made this country better. I doubt you could find too many Americans who disagree with that. I seriously doubt even if we (America) poured every dime at our disposal into some Third World countries that we could bring them up to our standard of living. Look what happened in Afghanistan. We were there for twenty years. True, we did bring up their SOL to some degree, but as soon as we left it reverted back to how it was before we were there. Some countries are so deeply ingrained in their culture that they have no desire to move into the 21st century. There is too much corruption that is a normal part of their daily lives. I’ve met immigrants who had a better SOL of living where they came from but still came here for the American Dream. And then there are others, like an Ethiopian friend of mine who has been a member of their Parliament, an Ambassador, and has held other high level jobs for and in her country. She went to a university in New Orleans and I once asked her why she didn’t move here. She told me because she would be a “nobody” here. [/QUOTE]

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