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You guys know we pay for aid for Ukraine , billions for a war that has nothing to do with us. We accept Ukrainian migrants, they get free hosing. Meanwhile we're complaining about our neighbors that want to come to America to work

My best friend started her immigration process in 2017. She was finally green lit to come to America in 2019 after marrying her long time husband over in Europe and then getting the paperwork done here in the US during that time Covid hit, and when they closed all the borders, they stopped all of the immigration process to America meaning that she was stuck in Europe away from her husband for three years. Finally last year after making her go back through the process getting all of her paperwork re-done, paying another $5000 she was able to come to the US just last month she got the start of her paperwork for her green card to work here in the US and become a full US citizen. It’s been a long process. It infuriates me that people like that who are honest, hard-working people who want to come to the US and start a life after being married, proven to have jobs and want to pay taxes and support a system. That’s willing to take them in get held up because of people like this want to come here illegally Big cause of whatever the reasons are trying to circumvent and skip over the people who are trying their hardest to do it the right way in the first place, dust dragging the system further down.

People who think this is about Republicans vs Democrats don't have a clue and are just going with their biases. Obama deported more illegal immigrants than any other president (more than Trump I believe), Trump stiffened up the border, and Biden made measures to actually make it tougher for these Venezuelan immigrants to get into the US once the migrant herd was moving north. This is a result of Venezeula and their economic collapse. If it happened sooner, it would've happened during Trump's time. I'm sure once Biden is out and a republican is president (looks that way), they'll try it again. Even Mexico doesn't want them since they have their economic issues to deal with.

Canada can have them here in the us we don’t want them

Hearing the stories on here about the legal process taking upwards of 15 years...I don't know if that is typical, but the fact is that the US already takes in more than 50% of the world's immigrants, and that's the legal, documented ones. We have to send a message that illegal immigration is not tolerated. You can't just expect to come here whenever and however you want because of poor conditions in your country. We...Can't...Take...Them...All.

As a legal immigrant and now a US citizen, this really pisses me off!!! Why did I have to wait and pay to do it the legal way if all I had to do this act like a child and demand things. It’s my right!!! NO, you only have the rights if you are a US citizen. I pay tons of taxes now, I don’t want to pay for it. Send them back and make them wait.

I know there are worse places than the US but , baby trust me our country is a mess right now! You sure you want to come in?

America needs to tell them all no U can't come into the United States because houseing,food, clothing isn't free. Nothing is free in the United States for you or us America's. + No U can't enter the United States no more for at least for the next 20 years from this year. Because U leave ur county to enter the United States and you 's don't ever change ur life. U all bring your tough guys problem's or U help ur people bring in drug into the United States. + When U R here in the United States U don't learn to stop specking Spanish at all & learn to speak English language all the time. We continue to let you's become American's but U don't become American's as a republican. Stop bringing ur bullshit problem with U. Leave all of ur bullshit problem in ur county. When U enter the United States U should have to stop teaching ur kid's to speak Spanish if ur Americans now. And none of you's are aloud to have any kids with any women in the United States until u become a American citizen. It should also take you's all 5 or 10 years to become Americans in the United States. Cause you's all are coming to the United States and ever time U don't like how ower law here. U keep on trying 2 change ower United States law's for you. No get the fuck out. We are Americans and we R tired of you people coming here trying 2 make it because some Spanish place like ur county. And No this is America if U don't like ower law's then get the FUCK OUT ur not welcome enter and u will be shot. U want ur county to become more like america then you people of ur county need to fight against ur drug cartel's and ur government and fight off the evil people in ur county.

Pepper balls, tear gas and bean bags would stop them. This is an invasion. If they’ll act like this they don’t belong here. They can go to CA, but the rest of us border states DO NOT WANT them.

This whole situation is stupid asf. Why don't nobody who wants to stay in their own country always come to one place. The US. There are other alternatives besides this poor country. I feel bad for Mexico it's like they disrespected our countries behaving like this and assuming that we are going to take care of everything. We are paying out our pockets to care for these ppl, taking advantage of us.

US fucks around in central and south american countries governments and interests for 2 centuries then clutches their pearls when half a million a year want to come and join the underclass that props up so many areas of their economy. Really classy

So the US doesn’t want to open its borders to mexico so we can can come into the US legally but want to blast Mexico all over the media because mexico is limiting or closed its border to people coming from South America. This is the aftermath.

the American are suffering to a lot of things imagine if this people get here damn. and for my story took me 15 years to move here in the US from Philippines ?? i move here legal this people want to enter freely

Seems the US can't win! They come in for so much scrutiny & criticism in so many ways yet everyone wants to get in there! With you Texas! ??

Blame the rich top top 1% and corporations who make 100’s of billions a year, not these people. The elites who are stealing from the middle class WANT to fool you into thinking it’s the lower class and migrants causing economic problems but it IS NOT. Don’t believe the propaganda people! May God help us all.

During the 1930's media in various countries made immigrants and asylum seekers out to be this horrible thing and demonised them. This came after a huge recession in 1923, the Wall Street crash, and the subsequent dramatic rise of far right parties in various countries, specifically Italy, then Germany and Spain. \nFast-forward to modern times. 2008 saw another global recession. Once again politics swung massively to the right with countries like Italy (once again), Hungary, Austria, Poland and Sweden, voting in right wing governments, France ending in a run off that narrowly defeated the far right, Belgium and Spain looking likely to be heading into heavily right wing governments at the next elections, whilst the US and UK governments both saw their politics swinging far further in that direction, especially the UK right now whilst led by an unelected leader who is demonising people in ways that would make Trump look soft. One of themajor rallying calls: immigration. The way media report on this becomes increasingly demeaning and hateful. During the 1930's much of the European media and even as far as the UK was ramping up the scorn against the ever increasing influx of Jewish immigrants coming from Germany. Even into 1944 there was a vast amount of demonisation of them seeking asylum, despite the knowledge by this point that there were horrific conditions in camps where extermination was becoming ever more apparent. The Nazi German government in 1936 passed laws that enabled them to revoke citizenship and stripped away laws on human rights. It would be great to say that these poor souls who were being demonised in their own country were accepted into nations who could see what was going on and who wanted to help, but that just wasn't the way it went. Media played out as it is now, leading to rejection and a greater number of deaths as a result of this. The way the UK government is currently working, it actually sounds like the maxi government of the mid 30's during the time of the Nürnberg laws. \n \nThe world feels far smaller now with double the amount of people and with things like social media playing a huge role in the lives of many. The ease of access to people around the world has made issues seem to stretch to far more countries now, whereas back then it was a time of empires. I get that there will be many here who support Trump, many who support Biden, there will be Brit's who support Sunak and the rather vicious words of Suella Braverman, whilst others will be more on the side of Starmer (I'm well aware of all the other parties but they don't stand to gain as much). There will be French people backing Macron, whilst others back Le Pen. We could go through each country all the way to the battle between Fujimori and Castillo in Perú, and the stories are much the same, but how will history judge us when people look back to this time? Will it be another occasion where we demonised those trying to escape the horror of the place they had the bad luck to be born in whilst we were luckier? \n\nI know there is hardship everywhere. I'm struggling more than most and I know I can't keep living this way. However, I don't want to be a part of history people look back at and say ‘if only they did something to help prevent this.’. I would rather be a part of history people look back upon and say; ‘that was a boring time period where nothing important happened’. It's already too late for that. Instead I try to remember that, though I was born into a family who never really wanted me, I was lucky enough to be born into a country that could support me during the hardest times. When you look at immigrants, remember that every one of us has immigrants in our family tree somewhere.

Legalize drugs in the US. stop the drug war. end the stream of income for drug lords. end the violence. Reroute the efforts into legal trade. Help reestablish strong democracy. Unless… our government wants it this way. For what reason tho?

Let these people come through and put them on welfare automatic and help Europe but can’t even help us ndn people in America and when war starts want us to go fight your war

How about when Europeans invade us and committed all kinds of atrocities. They don't like to talk about it. USA is a migrants country and nobody will stop that too late. Europeans brought black people to get rich from slaves now they bitch about them and want to get rid of them. Is funny how these generations act without knowing what the reality is.

Americans are leaving the us an they want to go in

You know our economy is in so much need of new workers. We have all these new jobs, and no employees. They need us, we need them. Let them in. F'n white men want $400 to mow your lawn!!!!!!

How did these people get from Venezuela up to the Mexican Texas border? And if they drove are they just leaving their cars just on the South side of the border? Leaving Mexican authorities to deal with the abandoned car? what a shame! Biden is an absolute terrorist, who wants to destroy America so thaf everyone us forced to rely on the government. Then theyll have our sworn allegiance for food stamps, section 8 free housing, medicaid and every other govt welfare program benefits! Mark my words. That's where theyre trying to drive this train!!!

100% invasion that us welcomed by the Marxist left that wants to end America's sovereignty.

Yes and if these people truly believed in God and Jesus they wouldn't run from their countries but actually stay on the ground and stand strong in their faith that God and Jesus are going to help them persevere through all this. As a fully disabled American citizen with a child that doesn't even get $1,000 a month and there's no available housing at all where I live no waiting list to go on people on SSI disability don't get any extra housing help we're not offered separate housing are put on separate lists and low-income Able Body people or the migrants jumping the Border but I was born and raised here paid taxes and worked until my body literally couldn't anymore but I don't hear anybody bitching and screaming and crying about the fact that my son and I would be on the streets if it hadn't been for one of my family members stepping up and giving his housing after a lifetime restraining order issued during my pregnancy on my son's biological do do with domestic abuse situation. I'm also US citizen that spent time in the Wards in Houston and projects and other cities and if you don't think that we don't have the same gun violence drug trafficking human trafficking gangs take it over cartels taking over neighborhoods and communities than you're freaking lying to yourself and everybody else. The same s*** that's taken over these countries is taking over the inner cities have been for decades and these are the same communities that most of these people will end up in. No it's not about not being good Christians part of being a good Christian is reminding people to stand their ground and have faith in Jesus and God and their own home territory and not to give it up to the crime people in the bad politicians. You can't say you believe in God and Jesus Christ and then he's got your back while you're running and that's the truth in the reality that nobody wants to hear the more people run from these countries the more the bad people are able to take over and then we get complaints here in the states about the cost attacks is rightfully so. For those people screaming and shouting that everybody should go out pick up in my grant and bring them home to their house and feed them and take them and I challenge you to do the same thing for homeless before you even do the migrant do homeless American citizens go out and really educate yourself because I'm totally tired of hearing from Americans that the only people that live on the streets are people with mental health problems that need mental health treatment or people that are stoned out and that's where they want to be you guys are so f****** wrong and this is coming from someone that met homeless people spent time around homeless people and understand we have a society that wants to paints a very different picture than what's truly going on because then it allows for hey it's not our problem they want to be there. I will say there's two I'm sure a lot of people are attracted to come into the United States I mean it's kind of turned into the Devil's Playground don't you think I mean look at how ostentatiously people live the projects on the backs of taxpayers selling dope holding down dead-end jobs to make it look like they're working all while going out and getting their hair did and their nails done and their eyelashes done and pimping out their cars and all that b******* and buying all this you know high-end tennis shoes and f****** clothing and Handbags and s*** and then we have the part of the United States that justified of themselves all the time or it's okay to have this huge palatial house or have multiple houses I'll we have United States veterans living on the streets or people that truly have disabilities that have been a waiting list for 2 and 3 years for housing. I remind people all the time and they hate hearing this s*** Jesus never had a house as a matter of fact Jesus basically live like a homeless person after he was an adult particularly and God made sure he was provided for. I mean did you all forget the night they came to take them away they were asleep in an Open Garden it wasn't like they popped up tents or glamper camper sites had some little Adobe type cabins they were sleeping in. As a matter of fact if you pay attention to most of the stories about Jesus and talking about him sleeping he does a lot of sleeping Outdoors. Remember God is a father that's how he's been represented and talked about in the Bible and Jesus was a man without a doubt no biological transgender question ability there. People need to remember that part of being a fair and loving. Is also teaching and discipline and these children following rules. I don't believe hearing God and Jesus telling all these people run from your countries and not have faith that I'm actually going to fix things for you and go run to somebody else actually go run to the United States where all those stuff is traveling through. I never understood the logic of that it's like rats run from the country where they're making the drugs to the country that supplying the globe with it and we're all of these bad people have thousands of people in planted everywhere with guns and hookups. I don't know why people don't understand that we have dirty lawn forcement in dirty politicians that are in bed with the dirty drug cartels that's as much as they are in the country. You don't think that there's not decisions made in the United States based on drugs and I'm not talking about how to put it into them but how to keep them flowing. I have Fred still in Florida and we were all making jokes about how quickly Sanibel Island all the way up to st. Pete got Mainland access so quickly after the last major hurricane that took everything down and we all know what it's from is because that portion of Florida is used to bring a lot of drugs in from South America, Central America. So for all of you that want to post your personal assumptions about homeless people because that's all it is unless you've actually been homeless or spent time around homeless you really have no clue what's going on in the homeless population except what you've been told by the same political talking head media bulshit that's been lying to everybody about a bunch of other stuff too. Don't you get it the politicians don't want people knowing that a lot of the people that are homeless on the street are people that are disabled and aren't disabled because they have mental health problems I know that's the narrative they've been trying to stuff down people's throats.

Why do they want to go to the US, it's not greener on the other side of the fence...

Thought people would be wanting to leave the US these days

Never forget the fact that America was built on immigrants back. Past present future !! God bless ✌?\n All of These are man made problems witch are all a part of a insidious cycle !\nCould be stopped if wanted but they use this as another way to divide us all.

It feels so good when US gets retribution for their crimes against other countries. If US wants to stop illegal migration then they should stop interfering in the domestic matters of other countries.

My wife, a teacher here in North Carolina and I, a hard working legal migrant worker and a tax payer were given a temporary visa to stay and work here in the US for 5 years and we need to exit this july because of the US revise law. I do not understand why the US government doesn’t want to give us visa that will allow us to stay long. In my working place, theres a lot of workers(asylum) from south america mostly from haiti and they keep on coming. The number of black haitian are more that the number of combine black and white american. I would say.. this people are lazy, loud, rude, can’t speak english well yet the US government look’s like they prefer them than us.

So many homeless in America already, why Mexican illegal immigrants still want to come to US.,

My wife is from Venezuela. She wants Venezuelans to be safe, but at the same time, she knows they can’t just rush themselves into the US like this. Both sides for and against immigration are not wrong in their ways of thought. Unfortunately, the most sound-minded decision would be to close the borders and focus on the struggling US citizens.

As much as I am for the US getting involved abroad, this is an issue I'd want us to focus on first

They’re going to want to go back once they see the violence and homelessness (skyrocketing every day) here in the us. Our country is slowly becoming a 3rd world country also.

You people voted in the communist government! All for getting free shit. And now you race to bust into our country. Are you going to vote for the leftest communist democrat party here as well for free shit! Tax payer and government printed money which lowers the value of our dollar, making it more and more impossible to survive. Which isn’t free. It’s designed to make people poor and dependent on government which wreck small businesses, create out of control inflation, send jobs overseas just so you need more free shit. Go home and fight for the freedom you gave away. We have enough trouble with our own leftest without adding more. I value my freedom more than free shit given out by the Leftest Communist Uber Rich Corporations that owns our leftest Democrat government and media. Go home and take your country back! Oh, what’s this? You say you can’t because you gave up your right to own fire arms. Now your government controlled police and army who don’t have to deal with hunger because that’s how leftest government works. First they get rid of the good cops and troops. So they can bring in thugs. And you all gave up your human rights to defend yourselves. You can’t fight with bare hands. Not against firearms. We can’t save you! Because you rushing in like this is exactly what leftest want. They didn’t lower the borders to help you. They did it to overburden us with humanity. So the communist left can crush freedom and turn us into another Venezuela. Americans, never give up your guns.

The US is taking x100000000 more immigrants than Canada. I thought u want more ppl Canada.

The Marxists hiding as democrats, don't want Venezuelan immigrants, because they flee for communism, that is taking over the US and the west right now. The Venezuelans turn mostly into anti communist conservatives.

The US oligarches ( 1982 : 92 billions/ 400 richest americans, now in 2022, 2300 billions !!!'' , x 25 ! ) make sanctions, because the natives doesn't want to give them their national ressources .\nSanctions like for Irak, you can sell some of your oil, in exchange of FOOD ! So why do we have , also in Europe , refugies ? To make the wealthiest more wealthy . the same story with Russia but they have their angel Monsieur , Sir Vladimir Poutine !

Anybody that voted democrat should have to pay for these people not the rest of us that didn’t want this!

It's all the democrats fault....it's because of biden and Harris being weak and not having a back bone and exploiting the weak points of America....while theyer in office so they can benifit from it and take our eyes and ears off other sh*t they don't want us to see..... thos is absolutely b.s. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should be locked up for treason......as well as Nancy and her loser squad also...

I get it y’all want to come to the USA but dam right now y’all just making us look bad and proving peoples point

I disagree with welfare at the conceptual level the same way I disagree with robbery .\nThere can be no “ reforming” to make right what is fundamentally wrong .\nThe only solution is to let every slug face the same life the rest of us face every day .\nWORK OR STARVE ……It’s good enough for us ! In fact give Demorats a chance and they’ll take even more . They even want to force the retired to hand their paid off homes to useless , lazy rats instead of family when they die !

Canada is a better country then the US that's why they want to go there the Canadian government likes helping their citizens and immigrants 85% of their citizens have a college degree don't blame the immigrants for tryin to do better arrested their polititians back in their countries who are stealing all the money.

We don't want any illegals, but Venezuelans can tell you how their country was turned upside-down by the government. First offered free education and guns were taken away. Now the country is suffering. And the government doesn't want us to know.

350k homeless US citizens yet this administration wants to financially support undocumented illegal economic migrants with no background checks with taxpayer$ US will become what these people are leaving!

that is a foreign invasion and should be handled with military force. that is Mexico trying to take parts of our country. Mexico fixes herself, or we erase it. START ASKING AMERICANS HOW MANY OF US WANT WAR WITH MEXICO! IT IS THE MAJORITY.

Wow. US blocks Canadians who want to come to US to see their children and grandchildren just because they are unvaccinated. But hoards of unknown people can bust in….

We don’t want the US to become Venezuela. If you come here leave the bullshit that didn’t work in your home country and adopt our ways. Doesn’t matter what you look like, it only matters that you value our culture and help maintain what made you come here in the first place. Okay?!

You have to understand that this is the result of US sactions on Venezuela! Not to mention other latin americn countries! So dont blame the people, blame the stupid murdering US government wanting to steel Venezuelan oil, and since Nicolas Muduro President of Venezuela told the US to go fuck themselves since they want to steel their oil, the US put sanctions on them, crippling their economy and murdering alot of Venezuelian people, US greed caused all this.But US hygemony will soon come to an end, as BRICS+ begins to become into power to prevent US hygemony from dong this anymore!

“We want free stuff, give us free stuff. Please, we came all this way for free stuff”

I always thought Trump was being dumb when he said, “they don’t send their best ppl” until I moved to Mexico and cross Paso del Norte once a month. Every month I take a bus up to Juarez and I ride with these migrants, and let me tell you something… they’re not all women and children. About 60-70% are young LITERAL thugs. I almost got jumped by a group of four of them when I arrived to the Juarez bus station for the first time. Mexicans are tired of these ppl as well, don’t get it twisted. 90% of Mexicans I’ve talked to don’t want them in their towns bc they say that since they’ve arrived muggings, burglary’s, and r@pes have severely gone up. In the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s most of the migrants were just ppl who wanted to work, these ppl that I’ve met time and time again talk like the US owes them and has to let them in. It’s crazy. You don’t realize it until you see them and meet them. That’s not to say there’s no good ppl in there, there is. But most are thugs.