It’s not just a moratorium needed. When illegals come into the country and their kids get into our public school system, they join our own children in being indoctrinated that America is bad. We are the source of all their problems in life.
Also, with the booing of our soccer team and Ms. America, and the racist hatred shown to us Americans duing the latest street protests (Si se puede!) it’s obvious that the current crop of Mexicans/Hispanics don’t like us all that well anyway. Yes, they can earn some US dollars here to send home, but they certainly don’t want our culture, our language, nor do they understand our amazing history. They are Mexican and that’s where their alligiance lies.
This is just one woman’s opinion, but that’s how it comes across to me. In the past it semms that anyonw who came to this country knew they had to work & support themselves - there may have been relatives, but no “social services.” If they wanted make good, they HAD to asimilate. And we taught all kids that America was good, and WHY.
No wonder that older generations of immigrants are doing well, but their kids are increasingly nationalistic (to their old country), racist, and getting into gangs. Our leftist friends have “helped” them do that real well. Everything the left touches they corrupt.
This is a very important point. When our immigrant forbears came here, there was a whole "assimilation industry" going, where immigrant kids were taught in things ranging from settlement houses to Catholic schools how wonderful the US was, how great our ideals were, and how important it was for them to be responsible citizens. And now????
As for the Latin American immigrants, another thing that you mentioned is very true: most of them do not want to stay here. They want to earn some money and go home, and I think making that easier should be one of the objectives of any reasonable immigration bill. Of course, one of the ways of doing this is (a) limiting the family members that can be brought in and (b) making sure that our welfare culture cannot convert these initially industrious people who want to go home into permanent welfare sponges who refuse to go anywhere. The latter actually is more the responsibility of the states and municipalities (who are heavily responsible for the non-enforcement of immigration policies already on the books), who seem to be permitted to freely flout US federal law, scattering welfare grants here and there to non-citizens, refusing to check immigration status or report illegal immigrants, etc.
In many ways, changes to federal policy are just the first step, because unless the changes are implemented on a local level, nothing is going to happen.
I disagree with a moratorium, but agree with one thing:
No more that 10% of green cards should got to any one country; maybe it should be lowered to 5%.
Mexico takes too many of the green cards away from other countries.