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Originally Posted by GoodLife
Nonsense, I don't hate immigrants, I married one. 
I don't even hate illegal immigrants because I understand why they come here, for a better life. That doesn't mean I condone illegal immigration. |
Hm. Well maybe we should try doing something about that. Maybe - we should create a more efficient process of legal immigration, so people don't have to wait 10 or 20 years to get that "legal" designation. When a crime organization runs your city, and its minions break into family homes to kidnap their children for the sex trade, and threaten to kill your OTHER children if you protest... maybe that's a good reason to want to leave your country.
Since this doesn't happen as frequently in the USA (don't kid yourself - it happens here - just not as frequently), you know you have a better chance at survival, and a better shot at your kid growing up to become a productive member of society. If only you could GET here.
So you do what you have to do, to get here. You worry about the details later.
Millions of central and South Americans have been doing this for years. Many of those millions have been fortunate to get through the asylum system and become citizens, or at least on the official path to citizenship. Many were not so fortunate and are still waiting for the process to work for them.
Until the last few years, when the rules changed. Now there are more people for whom the process cannot and will not work. But they don't know that til they show up and try. They have to try. To do otherwise would mean slavery, rape, death.