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Of Course Our Immigration System Should Discriminate Against Bad Immigrants

When people show up willing to work, with skills and values that fit with the country they’re joining, the results speak for themselves.

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My maternal grandfather spent part of his childhood in Colonia Mauricio, a small town in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in the late 19th century by the Jewish Colonization Association to shelter Jews fleeing pogroms in the Russian Empire. It was a community of Jewish gauchos — farmers, horsemen, men of the land — who built synagogues and schools in the middle of the Argentine pampas. My grandmother, the fifth daughter of a couple from Odessa, in Ukraine, was born in Buenos Aires itself. Both grew up in a country that wanted them, needed them, and had decided — with a clarity of vision rare in the history of nations — exactly what kind of immigrants it was seeking.

That vision came from Juan Bautista Alberdi, an Argentine jurist who in 1852 wrote, from his exile in Chile, the book that would shape his country’s future. His argument was simple: the territory was enormous, the population almost nonexistent, and the only path to prosperity was to attract European immigrants who would bring capital, skills, and the working habits of more advanced societies. The following year that idea became law. Article 25 of the 1853 Constitution — unchanged to this day — made it the federal government’s obligation to actively encourage European immigration. It worked beyond anyone’s expectations. In 1880, Argentina had barely 3 million people and a per capita GDP worth 35 percent of that of the United States. By 1913, its income per person had overtaken Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, and Italy. Between 1880 and 1930, the population went from 3.4 to 11 million. Italians, Spaniards, Central........

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