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My wife and I finally had a political talk with her parents. They are 1st generation immigrants from South America. Moved here some 40 years ago.
We asked why they didn't like Biden.
"He's letting all the immigrants in!"
"But Dad... we're immigrants! Why do you think immigrants are bad?!"
"No! We're legal, we're not immigrants anymore"
"Dad... we're still immigrants. We came here legally, and we're citizens now, but we're immigrants."
"No.... he's letting in bad immigrants!"
"What do you mean? Illegal immigrants? No, he's not letting them in, he's just trying not to kill them"
"He's letting them in!"
"You mean asylum seekers? He's not just letting them in, he's trying to fix the application system to actually handle the applicants. They would be entering legally if they're accepted. They will work hard and earn their place in this country just like you did"
"No, no like us, we are legal! Let's change the subject, we are getting upset"
universal code for
"I dont like being shown up and put in a corner by my own child, so change the fucking topic before I get angry and put you in your place."
He's letting them in! They know who they are, they are why they came here in the first place haha. I wish I had an answer. Enforce the laws is all I can think of.
Have you tried telling them what a dogwhistle is and how all the hue and cry about immigrants is just a dogwhistle about non-white people?
Maybe in their mind, they came to USA to do honest hardworking business, unlike brown immigrants that are here to smuggle and rape and leeching of welfare... to them that's what setting them apart. That is not something they'll spell it out to you. They cannot elaborate or substantiate their beliefs in any meaningful way, but it's the root of their anti-immigration belief and their seeming head scratching hypocrisy nonetheless. But good luck poking into that. I'm sure it will be easy.
They forget what is legal today may be illegal tomorrow, such as abortions.
Maybe even try to roll back changes and remove citizen ship granted in the past... I mean Sir they are trying toban chem trails for fucks sake. There is no limit to the stupidity
The only moral immigration is my immigration.
My wife has family in California who entered illegally but gained citizenship thanks to Clinton and they basically have the same argument as your in-laws
My brother's mother in law's whole family is the same, only they aren't even citizens after multiple decades living in the US. I really dont get it. My mom's an immigrant, but will never face any problems from it because she's from England, not El Salvador, but our whole family sees the good and hypocrisy of her being welcome here while Hispanic refugees are told to pound sand.
How can you deny others the same gifts that you were given?
"F U, I got mine" seems to be the common thread.
Fuck you, Got mine, is like one of the base requirements of republicanism.
Its OUR treehouse and OUR ladder, not YOURS
Well, everyone cannot have it. Just like we all can't make a living wage, be rich, or pull the shiny Charizard from a pack. It's not fair. But life's not fair. We need to start following the laws. Neither biden or Trump is doing it right IMO
We could all have a living wage and a shiny Charizard, there isn't an intrinsic reason for that. The supply is intentionally limited.
Classic selfishness.
Truly they have been assimilated