Everyone here, except for American Indians, came from somewhere else. Even, the Indians, if the certain theories are true, came from Asia. So, legal immigration has played a critical role in the development of this country. I get your objections with immigration post 1965. I agree with you on that. I disagree that there is any difference between legal and illegal immigration. One is driven by people who follow the law and are motivated to become American citizens. The other is driven by law-breakers, generally of inferior educational backgrounds, who want to enjoy the privileges of this country, but are not willing to follow the rule of law as all legal immigrants have in the past.
Everyone came from somewhere else, including Indians, that doesn’t make them immigrants.
America was founded by Brits, who moved to British land and then had a revolution and created the greatest nation that has ever been, not immigrants.
Immigration didn’t really start in America until about 1850, and then they started flooding in and changing us.
Today, legal and illegal makes no real difference except temporarily to the individual immigrant and their kids, an illegal from 1975 and a legal from 1975, have the same effect on our culture and the democrat party, the difference being that the legal immigrant gets to vote democrat sooner, than the illegal.