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Little does she know the Trump presidency is also going to look for every excuse they can to also get rid of legal immigrants. Don't cry to me when that happens. She voted for it. She can deal with it. ?

Great to hear a fellow American speak up for her nation and boldly speak from the heart. She came to USA legally and so must everyone else.? Shame on her family members who won’t talk to her because she does not share their political views.

She seems to believe that they just need to leave and then can come back being able to get the needed documents. That would just be a complicated form of legalization procedure. I doubt that this is the intention of the MAGA.

They are coming student visas and most don't go to college and visit visa after they jump to USA for green card and work permits so what the point we coming legal way to usa and Canada

Does she realize that she can be deported. Trump don't care if you're legal or illegal or have a green card.

You have a green card this is not your country and you are unable to legally vote in the USA lady!

How do we know the woman speaking is here legally?

Dang the amount of hate in these comments is insane, i thought you people were supposed to be loving and tolerant ? I've never seen such toxic behaviour and language before. Shes spot on , there's procedures to this stuff, do the process legally! If you don't do it, its illegal, if its illegal then you shouldnt be rewarded for it.

Zero chance she came here through the legal process. AND, my people do not claim her.

What people don't understand is that you can't just start a process in any country unless you have and meet the grounds for starting a process. Each process has its own regulations. Example: For asylum to take place, you have to prove you have a well founded fear of persecution from your home country due to your race, religion, or political opinion. Most of the illegals claiming asylum base on economic hardship, or violence from local gangs, will not win an asylum case. Wanting a better life for your family is not considered valid grounds. The same with legal status: You have to first become a resident which means you have to be petitioned by an immediate family member ( A Parent or sibling with a legal status in the US). Depending who petitioned you, it can be a very lengthy process, up to 26 yrs if your sibling submitted the application! Process is much faster for spouses and kids of US Citizens. Only after several years as a legal resident can you apply for Citizenship. Spouses married to US Citizens is 3 yrs, IF you know english. If you don't you might have to wait till you are 65, when you qualify for the test to be in your native language, but only if you have been a resident more than 20 yrs and so forth. As you can see doing it legally, is a lengthy process, but all these caravans think they can just march in and let the countries accept them without going thru the process and it has caused major problems all the way around. That's why the laws must be enforced to eliminate these invasions!

The fact that we have so many people in the US undocumented and living here for decades tells us that our legal process is not sufficient for allowing people to come legally. Having that many people tells us we need to treat this as a policy problem, not an individual-making-bad-choices problem. And spending billions of dollars on border patrol tactics that still allow for so many illegap immigrants tell us that our resources are grossly misspent. Plus we treat legal asylum seekers as if they were illegal (depriving people of food, keeping them from crossing in the first place) so people will choose whatever method will get them here. People can be here legally for well over a decade before getting a green card and then even longer to get citizenship.

I've been replaced 4 times by foreigners. I worked at Amazon and the entire huge warehouse of hundreds of people was only East Indians with only me and 3 other white people. I worked at Ballard and the entire production floor could not speak English at a elementary school level and was replaced by a guy from Iran who had never been to Canada and was in the country for 1 month. All the shift mangers were from Iran and my section was only Iranians, East Indians and Chinese. I was the top production worker by far doing the work of 4 other workers proven by the actual numbers in an attempt to keep my job but still got removed of course to make way for more Iranians because it was obviously a way to bring their people here. Zero locals were in the entire production floor. I can not have the dignity to own my own home and never will be able to even though I grew up here went to collage and university and worked hard. Rent is beyond insane and they raise it the maximum legal amount every year which is huge. All my life I had to bow down to foreigners. The locals have lost their homes and can not buy another house or could never buy one and never will be able to. All are slaves to foreigners who think they are superior and treat them like garbage. The foreigners get help from the government somehow and get loans they never should be able to get because they have crooked contacts in the Chinese owned financial institutions. They then build 5 to 10 unbelievably horrible illegal suites and that is where most of the locals now have to live in. The neighbourhoods went from a very low population of Chinese and East Indians to insanely high levels such as 98 percent. There is no sense in complaining to any government body because the Chinese and East Indians have infiltrated those key positions and always side with their own kind. The legacy news/media is fully aware but are owned by foreigners and never will talk about these issues. Canada has for sure been invaded and taken over and is lost. No one is bringing it to light and worst is no one is trying to fight it. Any attempts you are labeled as a horrible racist.

Illegal migrants please exit out and enter in legally! It's just that easy!?

Looks like 3.7 million immigrants are trying to come in legally. It’s the undocumented immigrants that are getting targeted. In way it’s mess up, but get in line like everyone else.

Legal Mexicans for Trump

I believe the law states if you’ve been deported because of illegal entry you can’t get a legal entry or it takes a very long time. I’m sure Trump will pass a law to say so if it hasn’t been passed yet. These people will be screwed. And their dream babies too

You’re not Mexican American lady! You were born in Mexico. You are Mexican. That’s how you are listed on government documents. She doesn’t realize that they will never see her as a true American. She’s an embarrassment to the culture. I say this as true Mexican American with love for my people regardless of legal status. There wasn’t ever an actual line where you stand and wait. She’s a freaking liar. Bruja!

This woman speaks as if she is not going to be herded back to Mexico with the rest of her relatives. It won't matter if she's here legally, she's trying to get in with a bunch of white supremacists who have happily used her for her vote. Oops!

Trump this isn't your country either \nBut coming in Legally sounds appealing

Good luck applying for legal status once you have been deported. ??

There’s legit legal ways to come work in America and I’m proud of everyone who works hard legally! We won’t lose all who are not in fact citizens but those who have come here to live off us illegally!

I came here last 2019 legally and it is not an easy journey(the money through out the multiple process 1,2,3,4 and so on,the lawyer fee and time plus the stress both me and my husband and in God's time sooner the final application for naturalization.So for the democrats to just let the illegals come that easy and got free food,shelter and etc is so wrong.

Send the criminals out fast! Stop whining! America is for Americans. Come legally. Is that hard to understand? Enablers out!!!

you may get legal PR/immigrant for example: investing ?200m and hiring ?10 employees over ?3 years... (the number changes)

Wait until you see legals on the National News getting deported, because it's definitely going to happen.

She doesn't have a clue, there is a high probability she would be deported too. The new border czar said instead of separating families he would report the WHOLE DAMN FAMILY. When this racist country put Japanese in Concentration Camps, legals were rounded up too. And she's lying because you can't get a green card that fast.

A one-time operation to deport these immigrants would cost at least $315 billion, broken down as follows: \nThe government would have to spend $89.3 billion to conduct sufficient arrests. \nThe government would have to spend $167.8 billion to detain immigrants en masse. \nThe government would have to spend $34.1 billion on legal processing. \nThe government would have to spend $24.1 billion on removals

What kind of a human being is this? Your own very family? What's this hatred all about? That heart must be really dark indeed! People circumstances are DIFFERENT. Not everyone will have the luxury, the time, the money, the health etc to stand hours on a line and wait (for GOD knows when or afford to pay) in order to come in legally. Are we not all human beings? There ought to be a place for empathy, mercy, understanding and tolerance for the weak and less misfortune in life. I'm deeply sadden by the old woman's words.

Yeah, k. When u get stopped at immigration checkpoints, they don’t care if ur legal. All they see is the color of ur skin.

Yet, there are Latinos with questionable legal status that voted for Trump think that only criminals will be deported???

You a holes here in the comments section don’t understand that they are ALL FOR LEGAL IMMIGRANTS like themselves not illegals who you all are paying for. Idiots.

Go through the legal process and follow our laws or stay out. If Americans break the law while their children are present police separate them too. It’s not an issue it’s the law.

Something trump supporters and everyone needs to understand is that there is NO application to just apply and come here legally! That’s why her family has been here for 20 something years. Only people that can “apply” are asylum seekers. Anyone from any other country there is no such application. There would only be an “application” is there was an immigration reform that would allow people that want to come or have been here to apply. There has not been immigration reform/amnesty in decades. \n\nI urge everyone to YouTube or go on the uscis website and find this so called application. The only way is either 1. You were born somewhere else and your parents are citizens 2. Enlist in US military 4. Marriage with a us citizen. So it’s not as easy as just applying, if it was there wouldn’t be so much illegal immigration. \n\nNo excusing or saying it’s okay to come illegally, just saying the reason people do it that way is because there hasn’t been and there currently is no process to do it legally.

Irregular and regular? How about legal and illegal!

Illegals who come here and have a baby that baby is illegal to.if i go to visit legally in another country and go into labor my baby is still American citizen

This CNN lady must like acting stupid: we want ALL of the gone! Im hispanic american from legally immigrant parents.

How innocent, thinking that her relatives would get a chance to go through the legal channels after being deported for being illegal.

So people are literally saying that if you are a nationalized citizen, but you obtain that status legally or if you are a legal permanent resident that you are still going to be deported because you weren’t born in this country. Can someone shed light on that situation is that true because that doesn’t make any sense to me?

I don’t see nothing wrong when he said, we have to let them in legally, I live in Germany and the way it works here, if you don’t have documents, you don’t get jack.

What she did is NO LONGER POSSIBLE. At that time Visas were offered to many countries No one does that any more, is impossible to do, this lady knows that well too.\n\nthe broken immigration policies of the USA ?? are so bad is almost impossible to enter legal UNLESS you have $500 and invest in apt or a business , that’s how the wealthy like Arabs , Russians and Chinese do it. Every day I see illegals from Russia, Ukraine , China , Israel \nPolish. But no one bothers them

How sad is this? The cruelty is beyond belief and she isn’t even ashamed of herself. And to pretend that these people could just apply legally is ludicrous. When this lady came immigrants were still being welcomed. All you had to do was apply and wait. It’s not so easy now. Trump has spread so many lies and so much hatred that immigrants are hated. Regulations are draconian and will just get worse. Trump has said he will split up families and jail or execute immigrants if they try to get back to their families. That Americans accept this cruelty, has completely destroyed my respect for them. I used to think Americans had some bad people but the majority were good.even with the evidence that they refuse healthcare for all and decent gun control to protect children. I thought they just hadn’t realized how effective these policies are. But now it’s blatantly obvious that they don’t care about poor people or disabled or sick people. They don’t care about the elderly or the health and safety of pregnant women. They just want more for themselves and are too dumb to realize that the way to get more is to work together and help each other.

Totally unfair to those who come to canada by legal means. Canada would have to house these illegal migrants and feed thrm for free while we have millions of canadian citizens living on the streets homeless! This is effing insane!

Anyone who comes here illegally needs to leave the country. The law says come legally. Stop breaking the laws, and then you dont have to worry about being deported. Simple as that.

Will “illegal immigrants” who VOLUNTARILY LEAVE, be placed on a list to enter “legally”?

This is one dumb Mexican ... Trump don't give two shits about her legal or otherwise. His America includes only those that looks like him....period! She said take out country back...boo boo that slogan wasn't meant for YOU...

She obviously doesn’t know that even naturalized Latinos with legal citizenship may be deported. This new administration’s evil doers are said to be going after Latinos who ARE citizens. They want a way to take away their naturalized status, (Stephen Miller is heading this effort.) This would include kids born in this country who’ve never known anything different but the US. I’d think that this could put HER at risk. Her cruelty and lack of empathy is disgusting.

I love it, she said she had to do it the legal way,you have to too ????????

Many people came to the US illegally. They got themselves sorted and now they hate immigrants. I'm an American they say. As they should. Though many can't even speak the queen's English properly like flotus-elect but their status is legal. Some of them will get the boot even with their legal status. Having voted for Trump won't save them. Sorry. One tar brush and a bucket of tar.

This woman is twisted. She'd rather support a man who doesn't give a damn about her and send her family to the wolves, back to a country where they may have no place to live, and no opportunities. The reason people are coming illegally is because our immigration system is broken. There is no reasonable way to come to the United States legally in an expeditious manner. Some people can't wait ten years for their name to come up; they need to survive. Shame on her. I hope those same family members turn their back on her.

Ok.One more thing.America supposed to be the land of the equal.And you people elected a criminal and want to deport legal immigrants.Congratulations?