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And NOW is the time to start fixing immigration laws. When we came here in 1952 from Scotland, immigrants needed the written promise of work upon arrival,they needed an American sponsor who would financially and medically take care of the immigrant for 5 years before he/she could go on the welfare or request medical assistance if indigent, if they were non English speaking, they had to go to English classes within the 5 year period they wished to become citizens and then, once English speaking, attend citizenship classes and take a test prior to naturalization. There was a 5 year wait before they could become citizens, 3 years if the immigrant was married to an American. Quotas used to be very high for European immigrants even tho’ countries were small since the U.S. was an Euro based country then. Britain never filled its quota back then, think it was 152,000 can’t remember and America was a Euro based country as it was determined by the majority of U.S. residents had Euro ancestry here in the U.S. Now Britain and all of Western Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, etc.) has a quota for all of them of only 10,000, and it is about a ten year wait on the immigration list. Quotas now are based on the size of country, not the ethnicity. America is a-changing.