A wonderful and admirable attitude. But a far cry from an idiot who actually invites us to celebrate his "my great-grandparents were criminals and look how wonderful I turned out" argument for unbridled illegal immigration.
As an aside, I am an immigrant myself, and all the adults who traveled with this 8 year old kid were legal Immigrants. That is a source of pride for me (in addition to the fact that I am a wonderful human being and never mistreat animals).
This is why I do not get involved in these threads: I rejoice with you and for you and commend all of you for taking the legal immigation route. OTOH, if my beloved nephew were to say to me that he was glad his great grandmother swam across the Rio Grande or else he wouldn't be here either as a member of the family or as an American - I would agree and rejoice with him, too.