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“”I’m the guy who got called in when the papered folks couldn’t figure it out.
I have a GED.
Performance counts.””

I taught GED (English & Spanish) to adults for years. All of the adult students were natural born citizens, or legal immigrants. Some were smarter than I, just needed some refreshers in things like test taking techniques. Some of the smartest ones were legal immigrant mothers and grandmothers. I can’t tell you how many times I had to pump up their confidence. They had raised many children, managed a household, budgeting, scheduling, and on and on. Once I pointed out all they knew and had accomplished, they stood a little taller. Many had left school in order that the family kept eating. The GED was their ticket to advancement. Most of the classes were at night, and almost everyone had one or more day jobs.

It was so fun when the Spanish speakers would try to say “how can this gringo (me) know more Spanish (grammer and such) than us?” They had not had formal education, but, of course, spoke perfect Spanish. When this Irish Catholic Gringo (we grew up poor, but nothing like some others) pointed out that they just had not taken the time to analyze, study their own language, but they always knew how to conjugate, etc, they again became more confident. For some, I used my own experience working on cars. I did not know the name of every single thing, but I could fix it and make it run.

Also, most legal immigrants despise the creeps creeping into our country.