Not 'a nation of immigrants'

Mainly, I want to share with Gentle Reader this observation:

Lazy thinkers tell us that America is a nation of immigrants. Actually, it isn’t. It is a nation of settlers. Succeeding generations of American immigrants have been required, in essence, to sign up to the original dream.

Exactly. America (the nation) is *not* 'a nation of immigrants,' and the United States (the federal government) has no business, nor right nor authority, to try to make it into one.

Or, as Kathy Shaidle points out: "A bad poem on an old French statue is not an immigration policy"