What is sad about this comment is how the author define and American. USA is a country that is built by immigrant (I am not talking about the CEO of big tech companies, I am talking about your grand-grand parents who came here a few generations ago)

How do you justify the people who let you ancestors to immigrate there being Americans whose work... (replace the rest with your own comment!)

Please don't feed the trolls. This is in the site guidelines, albeit with softer language: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

> America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British

I find it difficult to understand how we can describe immigrant colonisers as "not immigrants".

> ...British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.

Sounds like white, English-speaking, Christian == colonizer, and anyone else would be immigrants. :/

Yeah. it's white Christian nationalism. Manifest destiny and all that.

50% isnt even a majority, assuming this is a real statistic and not something pulled out of your ass.

50% of the US population descended from Native Americans? Wow.

How do you justify Americans working for non-american employers within the US?

If you don't let non-americans into the us, they cant be employers of americans.

Yes because I'm sure this attorney's work revolves around hiering CEOs and management positions. Point being that a tiny fraction of the people being brought here are not going to be employers and buissness owners. Most people are just taking jobs from Americans.

Half the country doesn't believe in science and that's where most of the work is. That's why you need high-skilled immigrants. But companies like TCS and Infosys do take away jobs from Americans.

The idea of a lump of labor is one of the oldest fallacies, and is a mark of a very small, closed mind that is unable to consider higher-order effects.

Online arguments are not meant to change the minds of the people participating in them, they are meant to change the minds of people reading them.

But, as I said, higher order effects. Google Mariel boatlift.