Considering that there are millions of immigrants here with green cards who never applied for citizenship that says who might be the fool.
A wife of a close relative was here legally for 25 years before she had an interest in getting it,.
Yes we have 15 million green card holders in this country. Some do not choose the option of citizenship. Others are waiting the allotted time period before they can apply.
The Democrats have developed something called the New American initiative to assist green card holders in becoming citizens. The Governor of Maryland set up an office to do that and there is a bill in the General Assembly in VA to set up a similar office. The Dems will use it as a feeder/contact system to identify Dem voters. Immigrants vote more than two to one Dem. The more they can encourage and assist green card holders in becoming citizens, the more voters they will have.