Luz shares her apartment with her husband, also from Mexico and also undocumented. They met in America. He works in a bar. They have a young daughter who was born in America and is therefore a US citizen.
Why should Americans care about the billions of uneducated poor people?
Because we LITERALLY invite those very people to come here:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
That’s from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. It’s the poem on the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty, and openly states America’s traditional position on welcoming immigrants to America. It doesn’t ask for the rich, or educated, it invites the “homeless,” “tempest tost,” and “wretched refuse.” Not exactly the pinnacles of society.
America has always been the place where people can come and fulfill their dreams, not where foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs can come and ruthlessly exploit our resources and labor force. I’d much rather have the motivated immigrant who came here to work hard and raise their family, than some foreign wealthy predator who only wants to make life worse for all American citizens.
If you don’t want those people to come here, then rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty, and announce to the world that the borders are officially closed, and isolate America from the rest of the world. .
That’s some poet, as a naturalized American I disagree. Let in people legally, with high skills and leave a bit of room for the really unfortunate (people from war-torn countries)
You can disagree all you want, it doesn’t change the fact that America is a nation of immigrants. Getting pissed off about it goes against the very fabric of this nation.
My great grandfather’s came here from Ireland 150 years ago with no documentation. My grandmother’s family all moved from Canada for work about the same time, with no documentation. My other grandmother is descended from Mayflower immigrant Constance Hopkins, also undocumented.
Because we LITERALLY invite those very people to come here:
That’s from “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus. It’s the poem on the plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty, and openly states America’s traditional position on welcoming immigrants to America. It doesn’t ask for the rich, or educated, it invites the “homeless,” “tempest tost,” and “wretched refuse.” Not exactly the pinnacles of society.
America has always been the place where people can come and fulfill their dreams, not where foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs can come and ruthlessly exploit our resources and labor force. I’d much rather have the motivated immigrant who came here to work hard and raise their family, than some foreign wealthy predator who only wants to make life worse for all American citizens.
If you don’t want those people to come here, then rip that plaque off the Statue of Liberty, and announce to the world that the borders are officially closed, and isolate America from the rest of the world. .
That’s some poet, as a naturalized American I disagree. Let in people legally, with high skills and leave a bit of room for the really unfortunate (people from war-torn countries)
You can disagree all you want, it doesn’t change the fact that America is a nation of immigrants. Getting pissed off about it goes against the very fabric of this nation.
Immigrants like me, who immigrated legally
My great grandfather’s came here from Ireland 150 years ago with no documentation. My grandmother’s family all moved from Canada for work about the same time, with no documentation. My other grandmother is descended from Mayflower immigrant Constance Hopkins, also undocumented.
Most Americans’ roots are undocumented.
Not applicable to today’s issue. You can’t just sail to the US randomly on a boat anymore