That’s the funny hypocrisy about these types of people. they hate immigrants but brag about their immigrant heritage. their was a guy on here talking about Mexicans don’t try to learn English and assimilate and then in the same post was proud his immigrant grandmother never learning English.
I don't think for a minute that the issue is the illegality of entry into the country. If they were all escaping communism in Venezuela or Nicaragua and voted Republican in troves (like Cubans in Florida) the Republican party would instantly turn 100% and welcome them with open arms. I believe these poor people are exploited by both parties for political brownie points. To Democrats it means a steady supply of Democrat voters in some future. To Republicans it's a rallying cry to create cohesion among disparate groups of angry white people. I've written it before in another post, the civilized way of addressing such immigration is to go to the roots of the problem, at what makes people gather their family and walk many hundreds of miles in dangerous circumstances to our border. I bet not one of those illegal immigrant is from Costa Rica. Why? Because despite being poor, it's a safe country of democratically elected leaders concerned with elevating their nation's standard of living. Seems simple enough, but the level of corruption in the region is such that even these basic expectations are out of reach. Most countries are nothing more than oligarchies of wealthy families that control government, economy and military, with the blessing of America. The population is little more than indentured servants living on miserable pay, victimized by hundreds of criminal gangs looking to get rich without having to work. And why is America doing little to help transition these banana republics towards democratic models like Costa Rica? Plenty of political, economic and military reasons to do nothing. The net benefits of this apparent untenable situation is for America. Politically, we do our best to prevent socialism to take hold. Economically our corporations dominate every aspect of their productive capacity. Our military industrial complex is their primary source of supplies. So, frankly, no one really cares about a few thousand poor souls crossing the border to be arrested. It feeds the right wing of the Republican party and their media pundits and feeds the Democrat party of democratic voters.
Yes, except America's elephant in the room, mother of all programs, is our $800B per year military spending which make all other military dictatorships in the world drool with envy.
There's a herd of elephants in there, lol. america's establishment sells 75% of the world's arms. How many more elephants can you name, VicBee?