Gerald Russello, editor of Kirk’s UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN, kindly asked me to participate in a symposium: how should a conservative think about immigration.  Here’s a link to the whole discussion:

http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/conservative-thinking-on-immigration/

Here’s my brief response:

When Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams put it best: “The American Republic invites nobody to come. We will keep out nobody. Arrivals will suffer no disadvantages as aliens. But they can expect no advantages either. Native-born and foreign-born face equal opportunities. What happens to them depends entirely on their individual ability and exertions and on good fortune.”

Amen.

Of course, Adams was drawing upon ancient traditions. Pick up any edition or translation of the Odyssey and note how many times homeless Odysseus is given shelter because Zeus, not only the greatest of gods but the patron of hospitality, demands that one treats a guest with the greatest of honor.

And, in full: http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/free-minds-free-markets-and-free-people/

For what it’s worth, I do not believe an American can be a nationalist and a conservative at the same time.