If Americans think “Amnesty” is what is destroying this country, then we deserve to be destroyed. Reagan supported amnesty, so did Bush, Americans supported them. Not all of us came on the Mayflower, and of course making this our nations problem is not something that most Americans agree with. It is a stupid political ruse, that fools fall for, and/or are used to make conservatives appear hate filled and intolerant. Shut up
Do you think the 20+ million new voters are more likely to vote for liberals or conservatives? And will their votes strengthen or weaken abortion rights? And do you think that most are here to become proud Americans or to exploit the hell out of this country? I’d never use the term ‘shut up’, but if I did, I’d use it on you.
My parents were immigrants and my only sibling brother and I both were in WWII service. I served overseas and my brother was killed in the battle for Okinawa. Both of us experienced the verbal non-hateful barbs of playmates. However, the one belief we were taught and held was that when a person or family came to the USA it was to make the USA as good if not a better place to live and die for if necessary. In all my years of school and work I learned that what my parents believed and taught us was a truth in that the USA was great because we had opportunity and the Nation could use our labor to prosper. I question how many of the immigrants today, legal and illegal, come to the USA to make It a greater Nation. I know there are still those that do come for the opportunity my parents longed for. However, I also believe there is a vast amount of immigrant persons who are here to take and not give and these persons are being enabled by politicians for political purposes; purposes not in accord with those of my parents. So I am not as sanguine about immigrants as you are.