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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Odd, how the actual migrants feel about this.
My wife is a Migrant. In the traditional sense. She was born and raised in Thailand, coming to America as an adult through the FRONT door: Proper applications made out and submitted, various interviews, etc. etc. She still recalls the day she took the oath of allegiance to America (yes, there is one) that legal migrants swear, as one of the proudest days of her life. Here it is, below:
“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all
allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom
or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;
...that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of
America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
...that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
...that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law;
...that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States
when required by the law;
...that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when
required by the law; and
...that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion; so help me God.”
Guess how LEGAL migrants to America feel about the illegals--the people who sneak, slither and crawl in while people like my wife work their posteriors off making sure that all the "i"s are dotted and "t"s are crossed, so that they can stand proudly before their new countrymen as new citizens--equals. Probably don't have to think too hard on this one. Almost to a person, the illegals are detested by the LEGALS. They see the illegals as short-circuiting a system that they endured proudly in order to become an American. Additionally they see the illegals (correctly, in my opinion) as giving ALL migrants to the United States, legal or not, a bad name.
Another standard of comparison. My wife grew up dirt-poor in Thailand, rejected by her mother, raised by her grandmother and aunt. Even as a young child she had to wake up at 3 AM every day to help prepare the food for sale that was their small family's only source of income. Following that, she went to school. School kids in Thailand wear uniforms and she had only one, which she'd wash at night and hope it would dry by morning. If not, she wore it damp. Often she could not afford lunch so to avoid embarrassment she'd go study in the library while the other students ate. She had to fight to remain in school beyond the fourth grade, but she persevered. Going into high school meant extra expenses, so at age 13 she took a job tying structural steel at construction sites during the summer. Ever tied structural steel? Ever been in Thailand in the summer? I've done both, and believe me the heat in Thailand in the summer makes the hottest summer day in TV feel like a balmy early spring day. But that was then. Today, my wife can look back on a life and career in America where she earned two University degrees as well as a theology degree. She is not only bilingual but biliterate as well, formerly very active in American politics not only at the grassroots level but as a state-level delegate, active in her community and church, well-liked and greatly respected. Her business (marketing) degree meant an income that in later years anyway exceeded mine, and her business sense means that we together have a VERY comfortable retirement. My wife in many respects is the ideal; the kind of migrant we SHOULD be seeking, instead of acquiescing to the hordes oozing into America; people whose idea of a "career" in all too many cases, means slurping at the public trough.
So yes. My wife (and even more so, myself) both resent the hell out of the so-called "woke" people who make every attempt to hide reality by cute euphemisms and dancing around the truth, congratulating themselves all the while about how wise and far-seeing they are. Hiding from reality, be it by euphemisms or whatever, only exacerbates the problem, and I doubt that very many people really understand just what a huge problem ILLEGAL immigration is in America today.
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