“First we just give away the American dream to the poor ones, and now we’re selling the American dream....what the hell happened to earning it for yourself?”
Have we really ever given the American dream away? Is the American dream just about being here? If you're here you have the American dream? I think it has more to do with what you do with your time here, whether you came from somewhere else or were born here.
It's one thing to be against illegal immigration, but these investors visas are a form of legal immigration. Yes these people have to pay for it by making substantial investments in job creating businesses, but what's so wrong with that? Most people in the world can't come here legally, AuntB. There is no legal path for most to immigrate to the United States. In the old days we let just about anyone come. We used to have almost restrictions on who immigrated into this country. That has stopped. Now the vast majority of legal immigration is family relationship based immigration. Immediate relatives of citizens and permanent residents are getting visas to come here. We also have some people coming over on non immigrant work visas, and in some cases those end up getting converted to immigrant visas. Those aren't so bad though because generally these people had to be well educated sharp folks just to get the work visas in the first place. To get a family type visa all they have to have is relatively clean criminal records. They can be dirt poor and uneducated. Those coming on investor visas have to have lots of money. They're generally going to be well educated and in most cases they're going to contribute a lot to our society, more than a lot of folks who were born here. That's good, right?
Don’t know if you’ve kept up, but Aunt B was most likely referring to how lawyers defending illegal aliens constantly cry to presiding judges “They’re just pursuing the American Dream”. It’s a mantra invoked to put emotionalism over rational law.
Yes, we should be importing entrepreneurs by all means possible. We do not need legions of ill-educated and backward people coached by traitors to take advantage of our system to eventually become Democrat voters for life. We have enough of those already.