Legal Immigrant Defends President Trump's Immigration Policies

As I have said repeatedly, we welcome immigrants that come to the USA legally. They nearly always become patriotic citizens that love our country. The old game of conflating legal and illegals in the same manner is an insult and a ploy by the left, similar to what they are doing with the FBI. Our disdain is for those on the Seventh Floor and anyone that tried to interfere with our Constitution and change the results.

Governor Brown, Mecha and LULAC will be crapping their pants when they hear this

To those who say "come here legally":

The US immigration system is full of perplexity and is a very demanding, expensive and time consuming process. Most people don’t have insight into the process because they don’t need to. It’s not just Hispanics trying to come here. There are people who marry those from other Western countries who have equally as hard a time as Hispanics or anyone else in poor countries. I read a story of a woman who met her English husband and thought it should be easier on that and that she has a relative who is an immigration lawyer and provided more insight into the process. They researched ways he could live and work in the US legally without getting married but that wasn’t going to happen at the time they were dating. There are different types of visas but you have to have very specific requirements to get many. The work visa – you have to be sponsored by an employer in a specialty field and the employer has to show you have a degree and 2+ years of experience in that field. 65,000 are issued a year. If you have a relative or spouse who is a US citizen they can sponsor you on a visa or being a student. Tourist visas are available to let people stay for 90 days. Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan are visa exempt on needing a travel visa to come in. Everywhere else not so much. Even with her being a US citizen and having an immigration lawyer, it was demanding, expensive and exhausting. So imagine how it is for people who can’t afford a lawyer, who don’t have the means.

“My ancestors came legally.” Well that’s true because federal immigration laws didn’t exist until the early 20th century. Before then, anyone could land on the US and just get off the boat with no papers. So people are right that their ancestors came legally – because there was no such thing as legal or illegal immigrants. The first federal immigration law was enacted in 1882. It prohibited the following from entering the US: "any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge." So basically if you weren’t physically or mentally impaired you could come into the US…oh wait except if you were Chinese. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 came about as well. The federal government was scared of all the Chinese workers (who only helped build the transcontinental railroad of all things) so they banned them. Well how else do you enforce a ban but create a bureau! The Bureau of Immigration was created in 1891.
Outside those restrictions at the time, federal immigration was lax. Able bodied, non-Chinese you could come legally for decades. You didn’t have to speak any English. You didn’t even have to be literate in any language. 1917 is when Congress passed a law requiring immigrants to pass a literacy test. But you just had to pass it in ANY language – not just English!

Then came the increase in immigrants in the early 20th century – Italians from southern Europe, Jews from eastern Europe. Well here came another law – 1924 the National Origins Act to restrict the flow of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. This is when you had to have a visa to get in. So until 1924, no such thing really as an illegal immigrant. 1924 – present is how long the term “illegal” immigrant has existed. Oh and here’s another thing – the people who have came “legally” a century ago wouldn’t be able to make it across the border today with the standards in place. In fact, most natural born Americans probably wouldn’t make it through the standards if they needed to.

Let’s then go to the myths about “illegal” immigrants: “they’re taking our jobs!” “they’re all criminals – they’re only sending their rapists and thugs”, “they’re mooching off welfare.” Myths after myths.
It’s odd how it’s a lot easier for Americans to visit other countries than it is for people to visit America. Just visit. Americans can roam the world and explore new things – people can’t come explore America too easily (they probably don’t want to anymore). People say that other countries have immigration laws that don’t get ignored: ha. There are Westerners who have disregarded local immigration rules and didn’t get punished. People who overstay visas in France, South Africa, Peru, Germany and face no punishment and aren’t staying there because they fled persecution – they stayed for personal interests. In America, we ship people back to coutnries they don’t know, countries they are strangers in because all they know is America. People who have sacrificed and bled for this country and get discarded like trash.

Undocumented immigrants don’t steal jobs, they are less likely to commit crimes than natural born citizens, they don’t take government services and contribute $11.6 billion in taxes a year.
US immigration rules are arbitrary and discriminatory. Historically, preference is given to immigrants from the western hemisphere and excludes people from certain countries. Refugee qualifications have varied over the years. When Cubans fled from Castro’s regime, they were allowed in. Yet in 2016 when El Salvador had the highest homicide rate in the world for a country not at war, the majority of those who requested asylum were denied. If you applied for a green card in 1936, there weren’t as many requirements and it didn’t have an expiration date. People are holding too tightly to a system that is extremely broken – and view it as a trophy when they succeed in it. “Well I did it, why can’t everyone else?” It shouldn’t have that mentality. Why was it okay for Melania Trump to break immigration laws when she was working as a model but other people do it and “kick ‘em out!” If a privileged person breaks the law, eh no big deal. Poor people do it and they’re criminals.

Perhaps instead of shouting “come here legally” people should go demand their representatives to fix a broken system. Fix the system instead of labeling everyone a criminal or “get in line.” There is no line. We should force those who we elected to fix the system instead of yelling out “do it the right way.”