Immigrants: Restless Dreamers, Economic Pillars
Date: July 11, 2012
Benzinga
July 10, 2012
The American dream is alive and well, at least to immigrants who are magnetized by it.
It is they who challenge the rest of us to foster a culture of inclusion, access, opportunity, and empowerment. Moreover, they are the ones with the starkest sense of how America differs from every other country in the world. Their very belief in that difference virtually guarantees the American dream come true.
As James Jasper noted in his book Restless Nation, immigrants “picked this country because of its promise. They dreamed the dream.” This has always been one of the underlying premises of this dream, which has simultaneously been a catalyst for renewal and transformation of our society over the centuries.
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