Immigration: Historic Homage
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First Preference. In the future, the 350,000 immigrants who come to the U.S. each year will more often be Ph.D.s and skilled craftsmen than "the wretched refuse" to which the Statue of Liberty still beckons. Those with special talents necessarily rate first preference among a rapidly growing populace. Even so, there are certain to be many who will be "not only the opulent and respectable stranger," as George Washington put it in 1783, "but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions." If the past is a guide, they, too, will add to the nation's strength.
* Negroes began arriving in 1619, when the first Negro immigrants, a group of 20 indentured servants, landed in Virginia aboard a Dutch manofwar. In the next two centuries hundreds of thousands more came to the U.S.—most of them shackled slaves aboard ships out of West Africa.
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