If you worry about the costs of immigration in the United States, stop focusing on our border with Mexico and start paying attention to the 4 train in New York City. That train that begins in Brooklyn, transports passengers to the heart of the financial district in Manhattan, and ends in the Bronx is an ideal symbol for the truly devastating migration that has taken place over the last few decades in our country.
As a young boy, I used to ride that train each Saturday to attend classes at the Trinity School, an elite private school that lent its facilities to Prep for Prep, a non-profit dedicated to providing educational opportunities to poor minorities in New York City. Today, many of my former classmates ride that train only to leave their offices on Madison Avenue to have drinks in the trendy bars of the Lower East Side. We have lived the American Dream, a dream that since the days of Manifest Destiny has urged Americans to go in search of opportunity and leave behind the communities of our birth. Today, many Americans are forced to stay, constrained by an inability to sell their home or find a new job, but others continue the American tradition, flying in search of riches in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street.
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