No, Our Society Isn't 'Based on Immigrants'

“Our whole society is based on immigrants that have come here and founded our country. I think we can celebrate that,” Jones said. 

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“Our whole society is based on immigrants that have come here and founded our country. I think we can celebrate that.” pic.twitter.com/DjymPN9q3H

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 12, 2025

To be as fair as possible, Jones is only saying this because the Dallas Cowboys have a heavy Mexican fanbase, and she's making sure a lot of money doesn't walk out the door, but she's still wrong. 

For starters, Bad Bunny isn't an immigrant. He's Puerto Rican and was born a U.S. citizen. 

But regardless of that simple fact, boiling down the United States to its immigrant population is ridiculous, especially at this stage in history. The people who crafted it might have descended from immigrants, and that's great, but many of the people who made America great were born here. 

George Washington was born in Virginia. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio. George Washington Carver was born in Missouri. Elvis Presley was born in Mississippi. John D. Rockefeller was born in New York. 

My own famous descendant, Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was born in Massachusetts. 

I don't see other countries holding their immigrant populations up as great, and nearly every country has one. Immigration is incredibly common across the globe, but a country's immigrant population isn't, itself, the thing that makes it great. If that were the case, then immigration would never be an issue, but it clearly is, especially when it comes to the illegal variety. 

"Immigrant" is just a description of how you arrived here. What makes America great — what it's based on — is the ability for someone who has nothing, like an immigrant, to become something far greater than what he or she started as through hard work and determination. The freedom to be what you want is what America is.

We can talk about how that's become far more difficult in this day and age, thanks to government regulations, a corrupt media, and an evolving culture, but at the end of the day, this is what separates America from so many other countries. It's not who you were born, but what you have in yourself to be.  

The left and the politically correct love to tout the value of immigrants today, not because they actually care about immigrants, but because it's fashionable to do so in this political climate. That, in itself, is the only reason the left currently thinks immigration is so great; they see it as a middle finger to the Trump administration, and they believe they can get use out of immigrants, both legal and illegal, as a voting bloc.

The moment immigration stops being useful to them, Democrats won't have much to say about this being a "country of immigrants" any longer. 

What we are is a country of free men and women, not one of immigrants. It's fine and dandy to look back and say that immigration is in its roots, but boiling this country down to how well it can virtue signal about immigration is like looking at a well-made steak dinner and saying it's a meal of salt. There are way more moving parts, and immigrants only make up a fraction of them. 

I was born here. My mother and father were born here. Their parents were born here, as were their parents' parents. Even just stopping there, that's a long time to be separated from the "immigrant family" status. The same likely applies to the vast majority of people living and working here. We haven't been a nation of immigrants for some time. 

We are a nation with a lot of immigrants, but not "of immigrants." We're certainly not a country based on immigrants either.