This is going to end with cities on fire.I guess I love you because you're so positive.
Somebody is going to get tired of lawbreakers waving the Mexican flags of reconquista, there will be shots fired, and the Rodney King riots will be remembered fondly as a quaint episode.
But there's gonna be big problems if we have another recession like the one in 1982 where even skilled trades adults couldn't even get a part time job at Mickey D's. There wern't enough jobs to go around then and despite 9/11 recession wise we've been lucky another one of that magnitude hasn't happened. When it does and people can't work people are gonna be getting very angry.
Immigration has to be limited for the common good and security of all citizens. The employment issue is but a part of it. Up till a decade or so ago TB in this nation was all but wiped out except for the occasionally patient in remission who would become active again. {That happens especially in health care facilities}.
Even visiting most nations means requirements both from the U.S. and the destination country to have certain vaccines. Not even U.S. Servicemen are exempt from this requirement. Ones on active duty military are the most vaccinated visitors in any foreign land. Actually U.S servicemen are not excempt from U.S. Customs laws either. Each deployment I came off of where we hit a foreign port we had to fill out declaration forms and even have our belongings searched. So are illegals better than those who risk their lives to defend the nation? I hope not.
But it comes back to this also. We were told in the Navy when we visited a port that if we broke their laws we were subject to that nations laws and punishments. Uncle Sam said you're on your own son. We have a Court Martial waiting if/when they release you. I know one guy who was likely still in a foreign prison many years after I got out of the Navy just for a few chunks of hash.
I've seen a lot of different nations especially in Europe including Tito's Yugoslavia. It was under communist rule then but not Warsaw Pact. But it wasn't paridise by any means. The worse place I saw though was in Brazil. A culture where in Salvador kids 5 years old and some younger were street orphans. This was in 1977 BTW. The kids I had to feel sorry for as they were innocents. But the innocent kids were ones you did not turn your back on either least you have a switchblade up against your ankle. The adults that allowed this to continue though was inexcusable. What I am saying is culture means plenty. Travis I'm sure you saw worse in your tour.
If a person want to be a legal American Citizen more power to them. Join the rest who have left national allegiance behind and adapted to the customs by the second generation. All sides of my family came here from Britain or Scotland. Some were here while we were still under the British Crown 150 + years before the Declaration of Independence. I definitely do not call myself a Scott/Irish American. Such pre-identifiers or prefixes before American in a sense puts the former nation before the one we live in. Just my 2 cents..