{"id":2619845,"date":"2026-06-27T08:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/immigration-numbers-crush-sunny-hostins-glass-half-empty-view-of-america\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:20:48","slug":"immigration-numbers-crush-sunny-hostins-glass-half-empty-view-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/immigration-numbers-crush-sunny-hostins-glass-half-empty-view-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Numbers Crush Sunny Hostin&#8217;s Glass-Half-Empty View of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fimmigration-numbers-crush-sunny-hostins-glass-half-empty-view-of-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2619845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article addresses remarks made by Sunny Hostin, a co-host on \u201cThe View,\u201d who criticized America\u2019s global reputation, claiming it is viewed as a \u201cfailed experiment\u201d adn an embarrassment. The response highlights that despite such accusations,millions of migrants willingly face hardships to come to the U.S., demonstrating the contry\u2019s appeal for freedom, opportunity, and stability. Historically, America has welcomed more immigrants than it has lost through emigration, particularly seeking better living conditions. <\/p>\n<p>The United States also contributes significantly to global aid, spending $86 billion in 2024 across numerous countries, making it the world&#8217;s largest donor in absolute terms and often the leading contributor to disaster relief and health aid. The U.S. has historically prioritized postwar reconstruction and avoided territorial expansion, sacrificing many lives in pursuit of global stability and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Although Americans enjoy high standards of living, with superior access to services and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/decline-of-marriage-makes-families-and-children-poorer-economist-says\/\" title=\"Economist claims decline in marriage leads to poorer families and children.\">higher household incomes<\/a>, their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2021-on-track-to-surpass-2020-as-nations-deadliest-year\/\" title=\"2021 on Track to Surpass 2020 as ...\u2019s Deadliest Year\">average life expectancy<\/a> is lower than that of comparable nations. this discrepancy is largely attributed to lifestyle issues such as chronic diseases, obesity, drug overdoses, violence, and homicides, with opioid deaths and homicide rates notably higher in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The piece concludes by questioning how someone from modest beginnings like Hostin, who has achieved wealth and success, can disparage the nation that provided her opportunities. It asserts that America&#8217;s achievements in defeating fascism and communism, technological progress, and medical breakthroughs outweigh criticisms, and that disparaging the country reflects poorly on those who do so.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recently, Sunny Hostin, one of the MAGA-hating co-hosts on \u201cThe View,\u201d ranted that she was \u201cembarrassed at how America is now seen across the globe,\u201d that U.S. allies are now giving America \u201ca one-star rating as a country,\u201d and that our nation is a \u201cfailed experiment\u201d in self-governance.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the question of how Hostin could even know how nations \u201cacross the globe\u201d view America, she should realize that if the United States is such an embarrassment, how is it that, since our founding, millions of migrants have willingly endured untold hardships to enter our country?<\/p>\n<p>And throughout our history, immigration-related rejection of Hostin\u2019s glass-half-empty embarrassment mindset has been far more the rule than the exception.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, with the single exception of the Great Depression, immigration to the U.S. has always far exceeded emigration. And it doesn\u2019t take a genius to understand that incoming multitudes have always sought greater freedom, economic opportunity, and political stability than were available in less \u201cembarrassing\u201d nations.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, if America\u2019s behavior on the world stage was completely self-serving, perhaps Hostin might have a point in criticizing the United States. But again, her attacks are uninformed and show an utter lack of appreciation for who we are as a people and as a nation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the U.S. obligated $86 billion in foreign assistance across 213 countries and regions. That amount included development aid, global health, disaster relief, and humanitarian assistance. Overall, in absolute dollars, the U.S. is the world\u2019s largest foreign aid donor and is often the single largest and fastest contributor to disaster response, global hunger needs, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-a-new-abortion-plan-focus-on-men\/\" title=\"Biden Has A New Abortion Plan: Focus On Men\">emergency medical aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while some developed nations allocate a larger  of their GDP to foreign aid, because the United States military is undeniably the single greatest protector of freedom throughout the world, its added cost more than offsets the foreign aid difference among smaller democracies.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, our \u201cembarrassing\u201d nation not only protects freedom in peacetime, but has also sacrificed blood and treasure in war without gaining or even suggesting territory as compensation.<\/p>\n<p>This has been true since 1900, when U.S. policy morally shifted away from annexing conquered territory toward postwar reconstruction after both World Wars and the Korean conflict. And that was so even at the cost of well over half a million American lives.<\/p>\n<p>But as impressive as our foreign aid has been, it would mean less if Americans were suffering more than citizens of equally developed nations. However, that is clearly not the case.<\/p>\n<p>That is, in terms of access to services such as electricity, internet, education, and sanitation, the standard of living for Americans is among the best in the world. According to the World Bank, the U.S. has a higher per <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >capita gross disposable household income<\/a> than anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, although our overall ranking in the above categories is very high, the average life expectancy for Americans is nearly four years less than that of citizens of economically comparable nations. And that is so despite our nation spending nearly twice as much on healthcare as peer countries do.<\/p>\n<p>However, as much as critics may blame America for that life expectancy shortfall, the failure lies far less with our nation than with a cluster of self-inflicted lifestyle wounds. These include a relatively high number of deaths from chronic diseases, obesity, illicit drug overdoses, alcohol abuse, accidents, and homicides.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, no other developed nation comes close to America in substance abuse deaths, which are four times higher than in economically comparable nations. More troubling still, U.S. opioid deaths alone account for nearly a year of our life expectancy deficit compared with other advanced countries. And if those statistics were not horrific enough, the U.S. homicide rate is up to 10 times greater than the average of all other developed states.<\/p>\n<p>While it is therefore no mystery why, on average, Americans die nearly four years earlier than citizens of economically similar nations, a mystery remains about how Hostin, raised by teenage parents of modest means, could earn millions of dollars in a nation she now devalues as a glass-half-empty \u201cembarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, Hostin\u2019s professional efforts and her law degree deserve credit. However, describing our incredibly generous republic, which crushed fascism, weakened communism, defanged ISIS, achieved countless medical breakthroughs, and went to the moon, as an embarrassment should shame only one person. And that is Hostin herself.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe such introspection is a bridge too far for the same woman who believes Trump\u2019s \u201cbad juju\u201d at Madison Square Garden caused the Knicks to lose Game 3 of the NBA championship series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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