Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, "Coming to America" from Have Another Ball (T.L.A.M.)
Commentary: Our immigration policy is deeply dysfunctional. How did it come about that we prioritized attracting not necessarily the best & the brightest from around the world, but only the relatives of those already here? Sadder still, is the uncivil, acrimonious tone of our immigration-policy debate. Latter-day Know-Nothings intone darkly about foreigners undermining American liberty while starry-eyed dreamers weave anarchist fantasies about world citizenship. Unlimited immigration was a viable idea before we had a welfare state; we have yet to figure out how to integrate those two ideas, a problem compounded by the displacement of the "melting pot" ideal by cynical, inherently racist "identity politics." Alas!
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are strictly a cover band; "Coming to America" is a cover of the Neil Diamond song, replete with Mr. Diamond's quotation of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
"Everywhere around the world,
They're coming to America!
Every time that flag's unfurled,
They're coming to America!
Got a dream that'll take them there,
They're coming to America!
Got a dream they've come to share,
They're coming to America!…
"My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing,
Of thee I sing! Yeah!"
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