America is not just About the Americans Who are Here

    America is not just about Americans; it's about freedom -- for everyone. America is not just a country;
it's an ideal. America is the gold standard of nations. America is not just a democracy, it's the nation that defines democracy the best.
   So how does a migrant from Venezuela, or Honduras, or Mexico fit into such a nation? Are they free to come to the land of the free? Once they get here, are they equal to others who were already here? 
   The definition of America suggests that we allow them to be our equals. America is liberty for all -- and that includes immigrants. America is justice for all -- and that includes immigrants. It is not a country that turns its back on the destitute of nations, but a country that welcomes them. It is not a nation that slanders the immigrants -- telling them they are but a caste of thieves -- but a nation that does not stoop to slander.
   America is not just about the Americans who are here, but the Americans who come.