Posted on 07/20/2016 5:21:27 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
It’s not just native-born Americans expressing nativist sentiments these days. Somehow, it’s immigrants, too.
“I think that enough immigrants entered this country,” Rosa Berezovskaya, an 86-year-old immigrant who came to the United States from Kiev in 2003, told the Forward in a story that ran last week.
“We also came here as immigrants in our own time. But we can’t let in crooks, we can’t let in untrustworthy people that will cause us problems,” said 82-year-old Olga Dubova, who emigrated from Ukraine in 1995, in the same article.
“I like his honesty, that he’s against Muslims, that he’s against refugees,” added Valentina Albert, herself a refugee from Moldova, referring to Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
All three spoke to Forward reporters in Russian, if that matters.
For any Americans whose own families were also at some point among the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, these attitudes are disheartening. But they are hardly unusual. In recent months I have heard similar anti-immigrant rhetoric from other U.S. immigrants, including those hailing from as far away as Cameroon and Egypt. Many are convinced that today’s newcomers are more dangerous to society than they themselves (and other immigrants in their cohort) ever were.
When they arrived, these established immigrants argue, they worked hard, learned English, assimilated and pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. By contrast, the newbies are predominantly lazy, law-breaking, non-English-speaking, unwashed masses seeking welfare rather than work. (No matter that newly arrived immigrants are generally ineligible for means-tested federal benefit programs such as welfare, or that undocumented immigrants are always ineligible.)
These attitudes are reflected in recent polls of immigrants and their descendants, too.
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Immigrants (real ones) who waited their turn, paid their fees, learned the language and complied with the laws are the ones most adversely affected by illegal aliens being allowed to flaunt our laws.
Except that their American born kids get WIC and public education, and they all get medical benefits. Nice try, WashComPost.
Doesn’t the legal immigrant Melina like Trump?
Not all legal imigrants are the same. Not all illegals are the same. And, of course, a large percentage of legals were illegal before they became legal.
Whether the immigrant story goes back 3 years or 300 years there are a lot of us (eg my wife) who have the attitude “Now that I’m here, shut the door”.
Per HHS/CMS and Census bureau only 47% of those eligible for benefits take them. 53% eligible because below the FPL do not take benefits.
Poor people of Mexican heritage, including anchor babies, have a higher percentage who are eligible and do not take benefits than either Whites or Blacks or Native Americans or Puerto Ricans.
Navigators are tearing their hair out because so many eligible are not signing up. 19 States have not expanded Medicaid. Yet the biggest group of those not covered by Medicaid is not covered by expansion. The biggest uncovered group is those who currently qualify but do not take it.
legals hate illegals
I fail to see how immigration helps the average working American. It is burden. It increases the labor pool and depresses wages. It outs a stain on public services and increases taxes. If unmitigated causes cultural shifts that are not all good. Simple math.
a large percentage of legals were illegal before they became legal.
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Nice spin there, bob.
Illegal aliens cannot become legal immigrants without returning home and applying like everyone else.
Your statement is untrue.
Most (real) immigrants applied to do it legally.
Illegal aliens did not, that’s why they are illegal aliens.
We should never change the laws to benefit those breaking them.
spintreebob has admitted previously that he’s for amnesty for illegal aliens.
Citizens of other countries who broke into our country and ignore all of our laws should get no accomodation.
If they wanted to be Americans, the only way is to start by following the laws.
And it’s one thing when they made their way over here under their own steam for a better life, etc. It’s another thing when it’s taxpayer-funded, government and/or church sponsored (liberal denominations, usually) bloc dumping of immigrants into communities with no concern for the people already there. Those people already there have to bear any burdens because the sponsoring church only pays to get them here, the communities where the immigrants are dumped wholesale are forced to deal with them after that.
My wife, a legal immigrant from Mexico in 1999, feels exactly as I and the immigrants discussed in this article do. She jumped over every hurdle and through every hoop to enter legally, obtain a green card and become a citizen. She learned our language better than most natives, understands our government structure and is law-abiding to a fault...just like my grandparents and great grandparents, in their day.
Immigration should categorize people as either desireable or undesireable. Not on numbers or country of origin.
I am legal immigrant and voting for Trump.
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