No, my young dude, there’s a really good chance that your grandparents didn’t enter legally, they were just beneficiaries of the Reagan amnesty. And we need not only another amnesty, we need pathways to legal immigration, because right now? There are almost none. Learn your history, child.

A longstanding joke among my friends in AZ when I went to school there: They woke up one morning and won the lottery: they escaped the edge of the AZ/Mexico fence. This was in 2003. "That long ago" wasn't that long ago.

there's so much border fear-mongering in Arizona, it's constantly a "crisis" that every liberal politician has somehow contributed to, and every GOP politician promises to "take on", I wouldn't be surprised if AZ citizens in general contain LOTS of "alternative facts" about anything immigration 🤦

why are you talking like that

Why does it seem like the people who complain the loudest about immigration (without ever discussing the real issues) are within two generations of being immigrants themselves? Just endless rants with no desire to address the actual issues, let alone work towards viable solutions.

My great-great parents entered legally! They just lied on the forms about how they had jobs lined up is all! Wait, no, that means they entered illegally. Whoops.

Cuban-Americans complaining about undocumented immigrants....

also at various period “legally” meant “you’re not chinese and you don’t have TB”.

He’ll my great grandparents know all of 10 words of English when they arrived. Just enough to convince immigration to let them through.

In the first third of the 20th Century, all you needed to get into the UD was to not cough on the Immigration Officer and lie about a job.

Not coping well with the realization that a poster’s *grandparents* could have benefited from the Reagan amnesty. Not fond of the linear passage of time.