Thanks to the shroud of anonymity of the internet, I can safely say that my parents and I came here illegally. I also know of four others who did the same, all with kids. Today, we're all *American Citizens*. I, along with some of the other kids, am getting a college education. About half are now successful (one owns his own company and speaks English...kinda), but that's due to family ties and tons of help from family. I come from the other half, from people who work their hands and feet to the bone just to make enough money to pay for food, rent, and even send money back to estranged family in Cuba. As I stated above, it just isn't possible to work full time and immerse yourself into learning another language.
How can you make such a distastefully gross generalization about immigrants. It seems you base your image of immigrants from the roving Mexican gangs of the west or something.
I can tell you for a fact that of those who came here illegally, when the opportunity came, became citizens, and they'd gladly defend this country to the death. To think otherwise is foolish. You seem to think that all immigrants come here to take your tax money and health care. You're making them the enemy, and you couldn't be further from the truth.
You need to learn to see people as human beings, not numbers and foreign entities who come to take your shit. It's funny...If it were up to you, my family and I, as well as so many genuinely wonderful people who have fallen into bad times through no fault of their own, would all be dead in your blessed "deadman's zone".
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