Exactly! This is why the liberals wanted to muddy the waters, stopped using the term illegal alien and now refer to them as immigrants.
Many people came to this country from other countries all over the world. Learned the language, assimilated, worked their butts off together to build and improve this country and became proud Americans. Those are the immigrants that made this country great!
Some were here before immigration laws, or in the case of your family (and mine) it wasn’t even the United States yet. Some later had to go through the immigration process but they wanted to be and were legally here!
The invasion of illegals has nothing to do with legal immigration, it is our politicians and hate groups that want people to be confused about that.
It is-and has been for years-all about cheaper labor on the part of many large companies, and the money that gets sent home on the other side-and there is also the narco mafia that makes stronger, cheaper meth than even the back-of-the-ranch-shed cookers that get busted or blown up sometimes out here. The Mexican stuff is deadlier, too-so maybe it is a self-cancelling problem-start offering Darwin awards for use of it...
I watch a couple of the Breaking Bad type novelas some evenings on Telemundo-nearly half of the actors are Americans of Hispanic ancestry who speak Spanish as a second language, like a lot of us do-and the children of Cuban immigrants, etc-and Telemundo’s main studios are in the Miami area-talk about not hiring your own people in your own place...