Notable & Quotable

Hector Ruiz, former CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, writing at Dallasnews.com, May 3:

I have always been grateful to this country for the generosity America showed immigrants during my youth: Texas public schools invited us Mexican kids to study for a minimal fee. I graduated at the top of my Eagle Pass high school class and won a college scholarship that would ultimately open the door to a work permit, residency and citizenship. . . .

We shouldn’t deny all those pushed and pulled to this country the full rights and responsibilities of being American, and we must not reserve citizenship for a lucky elite. The American dream can exist only when it is continuously renewed for all the hard-working people who cross our borders or sail to our shores, because their dream of a better life—the dream of the millions living here in fear, without documents, and those who long to come—is what has made the United States the dynamic nation it is.