Luz shares her apartment with her husband, also from Mexico and also undocumented. They met in America. He works in a bar. They have a young daughter who was born in America and is therefore a US citizen.
You don’t have the skills to be offered employment in the US? Why should Americans care about the billions of uneducated poor people? Certainly can’t take care of the whole world
I didn’t say we shouldn’t grant asylum to Ukrainians, that’s legal immigration. In fact, the illegal immigrants sour everyone’s support for asylum seekers. Why should a Mexican crossing the border in peace time be more worthy of living in the US than someone who literally got their home town taken over during war?
Why should Americans care about the billions of uneducated poor people?
Because we LITERALLY invite those very people to come here:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
That’s from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. It’s the poem on the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty, and openly states America’s traditional position on welcoming immigrants to America. It doesn’t ask for the rich, or educated, it invites the “homeless,” “tempest tost,” and “wretched refuse.” Not exactly the pinnacles of society.
America has always been the place where people can come and fulfill their dreams, not where foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs can come and ruthlessly exploit our resources and labor force. I’d much rather have the motivated immigrant who came here to work hard and raise their family, than some foreign wealthy predator who only wants to make life worse for all American citizens.
If you don’t want those people to come here, then rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty, and announce to the world that the borders are officially closed, and isolate America from the rest of the world. .
That’s some poet, as a naturalized American I disagree. Let in people legally, with high skills and leave a bit of room for the really unfortunate (people from war-torn countries)
You don’t have the skills to be offered employment in the US? Why should Americans care about the billions of uneducated poor people? Certainly can’t take care of the whole world
I didn’t say we shouldn’t grant asylum to Ukrainians, that’s legal immigration. In fact, the illegal immigrants sour everyone’s support for asylum seekers. Why should a Mexican crossing the border in peace time be more worthy of living in the US than someone who literally got their home town taken over during war?
Because we LITERALLY invite those very people to come here:
That’s from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. It’s the poem on the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty, and openly states America’s traditional position on welcoming immigrants to America. It doesn’t ask for the rich, or educated, it invites the “homeless,” “tempest tost,” and “wretched refuse.” Not exactly the pinnacles of society.
America has always been the place where people can come and fulfill their dreams, not where foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs can come and ruthlessly exploit our resources and labor force. I’d much rather have the motivated immigrant who came here to work hard and raise their family, than some foreign wealthy predator who only wants to make life worse for all American citizens.
If you don’t want those people to come here, then rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty, and announce to the world that the borders are officially closed, and isolate America from the rest of the world. .
That’s some poet, as a naturalized American I disagree. Let in people legally, with high skills and leave a bit of room for the really unfortunate (people from war-torn countries)