Easy, rather than assuming her motivations are racist think about the point behind them.
A large part of the US immigration policy now is based on a diversity lottery where immigrants are granted access based on their country of origin rather than assessing their ability to contribute or be successful in America. As someone who lives in the second highest density of Somali in the world, I can attest to how it changes demographics and how too many immigrants flooding an area too fast hinders social and cultural adjustment, perhaps pushing it back by several generations, not to mention the difficulties these people have with attaining employment as they have little to no skills or ability to speak English. For many, government financial aid is required to get by.
Now, I will say that much of this is to be expected when people move to a foreign land. But, to play Devil's Advocate, I think what she's saying is given all these conditions there reaches a point of critical mass when too rapid of an influx of people with the inability to support themselves and adapt to American culture causes the immigration to become not only highly inconvenient for existing citizens, but ultimately detrimental to the immigrants themselves as the easy path is to get government benefits and not assimilate, which ultimately leads to the local populace growing more resentful and the immigrants becoming more and more culturally isolated, which benefits no one.
Immigration is crucial to America remaining a prosperous and robust melting pot of people and ideas, but it can be a double edged sword if not done thoughtfully and carefully. The United States was built on immigrants and we should continue to welcome people who want to come here for a better life for themselves and loved ones.
*Cue the "you disagree therefore you're a Nazi racist" responses.
The Somalis in this country were not chosen by lottery. They mostly came by way of asylum from civil war & chain immigration thereafter. Your representation of the lottery system is bullshit. I turned wrenches with a guy from Morocco who came here via lottery. He had to apply through the State Dept & was very carefully screened from many more applicants. He already had a college degree that was useless to him in Morocco because of nepotism & corruption in his homeland.
The notion that immigrants don't assimilate well because there are too many is pure bullshit. It's a circle the wagons headset. If western settlers had done that as much as white conservatives now do they wouldn't have made it very far out of St Louis.
