Sounds to me as though people would want to come legally and have none of those bad things signify.
“Sounds to me as though people would want to come legally and have none of those bad things signify.”
People do want to come here legally. They can’t though unless they have family here that can petition for them. A citizen child who is at least 21 years of age can petition for his parents in Mexico or Central America and probably have them here within a year. The wait might be fifteen or twenty years if a green card holder is trying to get a relative over, or if the relative is not what CIS considers an “immediate relative,” which by the way would not include adult siblings. Really, there is no way for most of these people to come here legally. If it was possible, they’d be doing it. Since there is no legal means for most to come, a lot of people are going to come illegally. That’s just a fact of life we are having to deal with. I’m not saying it’s right for them to come here, but we’re talking about what are mostly dirt poor people with no education and no hope for a better life in their countries. They see our country as a land of incredible opportunity where they can make in a few days what they would make in a whole month where they come from. I bet most of us, if we were born in the same position, would do the same thing.