posted by QuakerOats
Thankfully they all came legally and assimilated, and refrained from gang activity, human trafficking, drug dealing and terrorism.
We remain the most welcoming nation on the planet; we just ask that you wait your turn and enter in a legal fashion …….simple manners.
If they came anytime before 1920, their "legal" entry consisted of them simply showing up (unless they were from Asia in which case they were barred), so that ain't saying much. On top of that, where is the conclusive evidence of all this supposed crime and terrorism from illegal immigrants? There are lots of analysis that show illegals do not increase crime rates whatsoever. And MS-13, which is a gang that originated in the US by the way, is certainly a terrible group. But outside of the few small pockets in Long Island and LA, it is virtually not a factor to the country. The vast majority of its members (which number around 10,000) were born here.
Just because one man says that illegal immigrants are rapists, killers and terrorists doesn't make it so. The facts don't support any of these claims. Illegals come here for the same reason our ancestors did. During the time my relatives came, a ticket on a boat was the only requirement to get in. There were no quotas, no oaths, not visas, etc. Most people that have come to the US during its history have come just like today's immigrants - desperate, with no resources looking for an opportunity. Can you imagine the courage of a father in central America taking his family on the trek to the US? Can you imagine how desperate he'd have to feel to do it?
You are turning all of these people away because our president has made us fearful of them - unjustifiably so. Have criminals entered our country illegally? Most certainly. Just like Italian, Irish, German and Russian criminals entered during the time our ancestors came. But like today, these "bad hombres" were small enough in number to have had no measurable affect on crime in the country.
The illegal immigrants I see work their asses off everyday. They build our houses, landscape our yards, build our roads - do a lot of tough jobs that we don't want to do anymore. On Sunday, they attend church with their families at a rate far higher than the rest of our population. Are they all great law-abiding people? Of course not. No more than the rest of our population.