I’m all for immigration. Not all Americans are born in America. However, one must play by the rules. If you won’t do that, then I don’t want you here.
Coming here is SUPPOSED to be hard. Those who came here in those small ships like the Mayflower often paid a terrible price to get here, as 1/4 did not survive. If you brought your family along, you could expect casualties, mostly your children. When they got here, there was no social safety net waiting. It was work hard or starve. Sometimes you starved anyway. You had to want it bad!
When we settled the West, the same thing was true. The trip was hard and fraught with peril. Only those with very big dreams need bother, for the reward had to be worth the incredible risk. You left your whole world behind for a future of unrelenting hard work and terrific risk. Sometimes, they didn’t survive. It’s SUPPOSED to be hard! You had to want it bad!
Now, many still take terrible risks to get here, paying coyotes from Mexico, or using a handmade raft to come from Cuba. or stowing away in a cargo container from China and living in their own filth for a week. Once they get here, there is all this abundance awaiting them. I don’t want them to have this largesse. I want it to be HARD! I want the risk to be greater and to be worth the reward. I want only their best, not their multitudes of mediocre.
