Replace the word "tourism" with "immigration" here ...

Bali has a right to be Bali all the time, but we don't have a right to be America, ever.

A New York Times article about how tourists are messing up other people’s countries perfectly describes how most Americans feel about the permanent tourists messing up our country.

I’ve taken the liberty to switch out the word “tourism” for “immigration” in the Times article:

“All immigration is dependent on beautiful natural and cultural resources. You have to protect those resources … and if you don’t, they degrade,” Ms. Epler Wood said. 

[D]estinations need to find ways to counteract what Ms. Epler Wood calls “the invisible burden” of immigration, which includes strains on a community’s infrastructure, utilities and housing stock, as well as immigrants’ carbon footprint and any challenges they might impose on residents’ daily lives.

“You put so much pressure on the place that the people who live there become unhappy…,”