There are exceptions. In particular, villages in Mexico without men because they've left their families to illegally work in the U.S. And let's not forget the overcrowded prisons filled with illegals. Close family relationships don't exist when you're doing time for felonies.
I don’t understand either the comments about close families or family values and hard working.
What about the ones that have left their families? Or those that bring their families here, the parents do not take any value in their kids, these kids have the highest dropout rates, and the most likely to join gangs, and don’t contribute to a family atmosphere by painting graffiti all over neighborhoods.
The hard working myth too is not easy to figure, US citizens work hard as youths, by law we send our kids to school, and become skilled at an early age as a result, and can become self sufficient without having to immigrate somewhere else for another opportunity and have to start over, like these workers who are supposed to be so hard working, but what did they do in their youth that made them bankrupt and turned them into economic refugees, were they idle while our kids were studying?
But I understand that a lot of people’s situations is not their doing, being born in a corrupt country without opportunity. I lost my spouse at an early age for example, and became a single parent, some bad fortunes are out of people’s control, but these things are not the norm.