>>>I agree, those Russians should never have been admitted into the USA and most certainly should not be in the USA today without proper papers. I rued the day when such persons were allowed favored treatment for immigration because of political sympathy. Such political patronizing has not been, in my opinion, a plus for the USA be it Russian, Asians or Latinos.<<<
In fact there were some four waves of Russian immigration into US for the last century.
The worst was of the late 1970s and it was mostly a fault of US politicians who slammed SU authorities in UN for preventing their citizens moving abroad.
Soviets finally said OK, get it into your face and established three panels in parts of Soviet Union including Stans to flood America with people they didn’t want for themselves. Felons, prostitutes, addicts, welfare recipients, muslim extremists and liberal artists had undisputed priority. Some convicts were actually forced by KGB to participate as an amnesty plan.
United States had to accept any of these people just to save face.
It was really difficult to emigrate for decent folks only. Commies has instituted an “emigration tax” of some $25,000 per family member who had any degrees to compensate for “free education”. It was unbearable for most Soviet families who averaged $9,000-12,000 annually.
I recently had to drop a Russian friend of mine. Why? She turned up one day married to a gay man. Why? Because she and her thug father wanted her to have American citizenship. He paid the gay guy an enormous sum and his daughter may be on the path to citizenship while other legal immigrants are pushed down the line. I know I should have reported it but didn’t.
As I have posted previously my parents and grandparents were in a ‘wave’ that came to the USA at the the time of the Bolshevik revolution.As far as I know and experienced this ‘wave’ in the vast proportion came to be good people and citizen. They worked hard and suffered in the great depression along all the Nation. Many of my ‘family’ including myself served in WWII and my brother died on Okinawa. I make these comments so that there is a distinction between my ‘wave’ and the ‘wave(s)’ that were allowed into the USA for some politicians goody-feely purposes