It’s a complicated topic. There was a time when America could open her arms to anyone and everyone but things have changed. The primary problem is the long train of abuses committed against this country by Mexico. They have invaded our country and have they threatened our constitution and our values by allying with the leftists. They have basically spoiled things for everyone and that is why I have zero sympathy for their plight now. get them the hell out of here.
Mexico is a more dangerous enemy to the US than Russia could ever be.
That may be the current myth, but from my memory of the American history I've either read or lived through (69 years), that has not been the case.
Since 1875, there have been restrictions for:
1875 - "banning criminals, prostitutes, and Chinese contract laborers"
1882 - "bans "convicts (except those convicted of political offenses), lunatics, idiots and persons likely to become public charges"
1891 - "The act also calls for the deportation of people who entered the country illegally and denies entry for polygamists, the mentally ill, and those with contagious diseases."
1907 - "The list excludes “imbeciles,” “feeble-minded” people, those with physical or mental disabilities that prevent them from working, tuberculosis victims, children who enter the U.S. without parents, and those who committed crimes of “moral turpitude.”
1907 - "Expatriation Act of 1907 that says women must adopt the citizenship of their husbands. Therefore, women who marry foreigners lose their U.S. citizenship unless their husbands become citizens" (later repealed)
A detailed look at immigration legislation from the Colonial Period to the present