What is an American Company? How many shares need to be owned by a foreigner to disqualify a company from being American. How many plants operating outside our border disqualifies them? Where are their sales, their raw material sources, articles of incorporation?

I think "American Company" is a concept to protect companies that we can steal from via taxation and do not care if our quality of life is improved by goods produced elsewhere. In adding the burden of being a slave to government they are at a competitive disadvantage even in situations where they should be the most efficient producer. If you have a highly automated plant producing a large number of units, a labor rate of $50 an hour vs. $8 means very little. The transportation cost to market and security costs largely favor US producers. What cannot be overcome are taxes, regulations and trade restrictions.

What is the justification for our existence as a country? Why have we fought so hard to sustain it? What is the value that we represent that makes our case that we are a great country. It was not a new concept but a rare practice to base a government on individual pursuit of happiness. Who, consistent with our core principles, should be barred from participating? If there are those that we justify as undeserving, we need to define the criteria carefully and adhere to our laws based on those criteria.

"We" are a long history of citizens of a republic that have failed in our due diligence to elect representatives that preserve our principles and monitor their actions. "We" are the government and if we have neglected it while it sank into a morass of socialist-statists then we are to blame and need to start paying attention.

I do not support uncontrolled immigration because economically, it is unwise to welcome those without education, skills and/or a willingness to work which would be an additional burden to our welfare state. I also agree that we need to screen out those that wish to do us harm. I do believe that we still have a lot to gain from immigration and could learn a lot from those that have struggled to get here, are grateful for the freedom they enjoy and are working hard to improve their and their families' welfare. Many of our native born citizens seem to need a refresher course in self sustainability and respect.

"Somehow, we have created a huge mass of people that have an incredibly warped sense"
Who do you mean by "we"?
If you mean (a) the federal government and state governments and media, all being manipulated and guided by socialist-statists, and (b) federal government and socialist-statist elites purposely encouraging millions of people who have no idea about the responsibilities of freedom to illegally immigrate then I agree that they have done so.
The we that I know have opposed these manipulations and invasion while simultaneously raising our families, and running our businesses and being constantly assailed with unconstitutional taxes and regulations.
Today is not the 17th, 18th, 19th century. Uncontrolled immigration is not a benefit to America today.
America has benefitted from immigrants and will benefit from limited, legal immigration in the future

Everything worthwhile about America is due to the acceptance of immigrants and refugees seeking a future for themselves and their families. All people that view America as a place where they can enjoy individual rights and respect the rights of others should be allowed. Those that don't should be denied entry if they are not here yet, deported if they are not citizens and reeducated even if their relatives came over on the Mayflower. Somehow, we have created a huge mass of people that have an incredibly warped sense of what America is, its value, why it is unique and worth preserving.

Many of the issues we disagree on today were debated by the founders. Jefferson and Hamilton could come back to life and pick up exactly where they left off. Other than the issues of slavery and women's suffrage, I cannot see where we have made any improvements. Mostly we have violated individual rights and created a charade for government by and for the people.

Budweiser is not an American Company. Sold out a few years back.

Completely unrelated to the ad, I've always liked Budweiser, maybe because it's the first beer I tried. Now maybe the redneck idiots of the world will make it a cool for me.

Yes, I can. And I liked the commercial, but I knew that it would probably be looked at suspiciously because of recent events and the media being what it is. This is the age of ISIS terrorists. No one, including Trump, is banning immigrants from coming here, but as a country, we do have the right and the obligation to secure our borders and protect our citizens. No beer commercial can take that responsibility away.

I knew this controversy would happen but it was planned well before the ban. It's about coming to America to make your hard work and dreams become a reality. Can't we just leave it at that?