[codebeaker]

As a European reading this it sounds like the author has some kind of narcissistic take on exactly what kind of immigrants their country has and where they "belong".

Of course what the author wrote, and what I understood needn't align, we're different, with different cultural references, but this stood out to me enough that I stopped reading to revisit HN to find out if anyone else observed the same casual use of what seems like inappropriately dismissive language.

[camgunz]

This is yeah, probably a cultural mixup. There's a fair number of people in the US who view and characterize immigrants as freeloaders, when the truth is they work harder than "natives" and our economy depends on them. And like a sibling comment says, it's a reference to a line from Hamilton, which celebrates in lots of ways the US' diverse heritage.