I brought my wife here in 1976 when I mustered out. She spent 7+ years LEARNING ENGLISH in language classes we paid for, she studied and she worked, and she had multiple interviews and investigations.
I, WE, she NEVER took a damned dime of government entitlements - I had to promise that in writing.. She speaks three languages perfectly, but the one she thinks in is English now after 37 years.
There’s not a damned illegal Mexican in the whole bunch of 30-50 million who have invaded here who has done more, yet they get a pass now it seems.
Fleeing the communists, my f-in-l arrived here in the 70’s from Cuba with 26 cents and no contacts. He learned English, went through the naturalization system legally, and eventually built a 500-employee business. (My wife was 15 at the time.)
However, there are gobs of hard-working illegals in this country, being exploited by crooked business people. Because of their culture, they don’t see what they’re doing as wrong. You know how the idea of “legality” is slippery in Latin America.
If business suits started getting arrested and welfare started getting cut off, they’d shrug their shoulders and self-deport. As it is, the Chamber of Commerce (and others) are bribing Congress like mad monkeys, even as we sit here typing away.
That’s why fighting this thing is like pissing in the wind. Without matching the millions of dollars in bribes pouring into Washington, the anti-amnesty crowd is as much as disenfranchised.
I admire people like your wife who chose to become a citizen by following the law. I cannot imagine how amnesty will be explained to those who came here legally, or those in the process right now.