Cal Thomas: They’re coming to America
by Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency
Jan 21, 2021
2 minutes
In 1980, singer Neil Diamond recorded a song that celebrated American immigration, first in the early 1900s and then more recently. The song included this chorus:
“On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again
They're coming to America.”
The song makes no distinction between the legal and orderly immigration of the early 20th century and
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