when your parents or grandparents or their predecessors came to USA, they were
1. checked for not having communicable diseases
2. checked for being terrorists.communists.whatever (the threat depending on the year, of course)
3. checked for self-sufficiency (or a private sponsor who would guarantee their needs) so that they didn’t become public charges on the welfare dole
there were some years when immigration from certain places was restricted (for perhaps good reasons, for perhaps less good reasons)
if an immigrant was admitted to USA, s/he was effectively “on probation” for (usually) usually 5 years, during which time they had to stay away from committing criminal or terrorist attacks
(or risk deportation, repatriation as well as possible imprisonment beforehand)
they could take a citizenship test, requiring basic knowledge of our system of governance
so... almost all legal immigrants...not all but almost all...from most countries....worked out pretty well.
but most immigrants WANTED to become Americans and to succeed here, become self-sufficient, self-supporting here, learn English and our way of life.
nowadays, with the Democrats’ Open Borders (and instant welfare benefits) policies, all these simple checks and balances are gone, tossed right out the window. We are getting flooded with (yes, some decent immigrants but also) millions of people who
1. do not want to become Americans
2. only wish our free ride welfare benefits
3. and for hundreds of thousands from Iran and Araby and other terrorist-nest Krapistans, only wish to attack America and American citizens FROM WITHIN our borders, our neighborhoods and communities
(witness our college campuses, Ann Arbor/Detroit, and so on)
basically, we have been SOLD OUT by the DNC political machine bosses and their puppets in office
sold out
sold out
sold out
even essentially-communistic Sweden is beginning to ship the terrorist cadres home to Arabia and Iran etcetera
but our D party apparachniks are now sending airplanes to recruit MORE of these (including venezuela commie types) into USA, flying straight over the border-without-meaningful-immigration-checks
a border fence won’t stop the problem anymore. anti-aircraft missiles will now be needed (and no, I am NOT advocating anything like that, just observing what a complete screwing the D party machine people have done to America)