@flo Mexicans who come here legally go through all sorts of time, money and expense, and stress. Do you think they are thrilled about Mexicans, or any immigrant, getting benefits and bio adding all of that? I was against local authorities acting like INS, but my SIL, who is Mexican, was just fine with it when there was an uproar in AZ a few years ago. Her answer was,“they have a right to protect their boarders.” She at the same time says the US for years purposely ignored illegal immigrants, turns a blind eye to it, so big business can have cheap labor. It’s complicated.
Latin American-Americans are usually annoyed Cubans can still get asylum from putting one toe in the sand of our shores.
My mom, who usually is very liberal on issues, and lives in an extremely diverse community, gets really pissed off when illegal immigrants are in gangs killing people. She is all for immigration, but doesn’t want to deal with criminals who aren’t even legal here, we have enough American criminals. That doesn’t make her racist.
There absolutely are immigrants who come here on student visas, not poor, they pay a small fortune for school, and then overstay their visas.
I friend of a friend of mine from
Chile lived in America for 12 years. The 12th year she had a business card in her luggage when returning from a visit to Chile. An American business card. She had been earning money while living here on a tourist visa. The put her right back on a plane back to Chile and she cannot come back. She wasn’t living in horrid conditions in Chile.
I know multiple people who got married to get papers here. None of them were in desperate situations in their country.
I do know people who fled their country to save their own lives from the government, or the poverty was incredibly extreme. Of course those situations exist, but it’s not all
immigrants.
Trump just says things really badly, that is a serious problem, I mean it, but I don’t think he is racist.
He employs a ton of women, and has many women in top
Positions in his company. I wouldn’t want to marry him, but I would feel fine working for him.