托马斯·杰斐逊谈移民

“通过尽可能大量输入外国人来实现人口快速增长……这是建立在良好政策基础上的吗？他们会带来自己早年所浸染的、来自原政府的原则；或者，如果他们能够摆脱这些原则，也往往会换来一种无节制的放纵，从一个极端走向另一个极端。要他们恰好停在温和自由的那个点上，几乎是一个奇迹。这些原则，连同他们的语言，他们会传给自己的子女。他们会将自己的精神注入其中，扭曲和影响它的方向，使它变成一个混杂的、不连贯的、纷乱的群体。如果他们是自愿前来的，他们有权享有公民的一切权利；但我怀疑通过特别的鼓励来邀请他们是否明智。”——《弗吉尼亚笔记》（Notes on Virginia）

Thomas Jefferson on Immigration: “Is rapid population growth by as great importations of foreigners as possible... founded in good policy?... They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. If they come of themselves, they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements.” - Notes on Virginia

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