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My people bn here 400 plus years cant get medical care or affordable housing but we got these immigrants flooding over here and having there babies free of charge and getting low income housing, amongst other things and there not even citizens and cant even speak English, im not for it because theres no way someone could go to there country and go to the front of the line. Shameful and i dont support it at all. I went to my post office recently and they had the nerve to employ a woman who couldnt even speak english at the post office counter, wtf is goin on.

Folks, I need to educate many for a second. When you immigrate to this country you DO NOT become a citizen when you get legal clearance. You can become a permanent resident at best which means you can live, work and do most other things here legally. You DO NOT get to vote or work in government agencies as a lawful permanent resident. To become a citizen you have to wait a minimum of 3 years, or more depending on your permanent resident status, to then apply for citizenship. You then apply for the citizenship application and if accepted the process requires you to take a test and go through a series of questions about U.S. history and government knowledge in an interview that you need to pass, before you are awarded citizenship. Through this process you are SUPPOSED to be committing yourself to the United States of America as someone who denounces your allegiance to your old country and is now pledging your allegiance to the U.S. This is now your home country and you treat it as such. You are now an AMERICAN, not a whatever from wherever that just lives in America. It should be a big deal and one to be proud of. I know people that have been here for 25 years as a permanent resident and they still have no desire to become a citizen. They have lived off of this country, raised families in this country, worked and benefitted from this country and still align with their old country and are completely amiss to what it means to become a U.S. citizen. There is a reason that only citizens are allowed to vote! Because you should have an allegiance to America and should vote accordingly and not be allowed to work in our governmental agencies for the same reason. Legal status and citizenship are NOT the same.

I'm at my local news this morning on my local news, they said the government reported that illegal immigration was down by 50%. Mainstream news media is garbage but unfortunately that's what most people watch.

?? should take care of the ones who have been In this country for years paying taxes and having NO criminal record. ?? is such a joke letting these new people come in for free while putting us hard working ones a side. We give our all for this country in hopes to one day get accounted for and receive some type of status yet they make it even harder and prefer to deport us but give new opportunities to these new immigrants whom they don’t know nothing about? what a shame

There were US government and military people to meet with México’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador, to talk about immigration issues.\nMéxico was ready to talk about this BUT the US government officials talked about an investment of 1.4 BILLION DOLLARS for México ?? INSTEAD. Sooooo… USA is not doing its part for this.\nUS wants a liquid propane pipe line from Texas to Sonora and from Sonora to Veracruz. And for the “ITSMO DE TEHUANTEPEC” another multimillion investment. I mean; thank you USA… But they won’t touch the issue of immigration with the Mexican Government. Sooo who is at FAIL ??

What Americans do not understand is that there are people in other Countries who are starving because their Countries have gone bankrupt, or their government system has collapsed in those Countries. Venezuela, Brazil, Greece, Pakistan, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, and a whole list of more of which media is not telling the American people. America itself has put those living here at risk, for refugees to come in in drones, because the more illegals they let come into America, and allow to get their citizenship, the more individuals they have who can vote either Republican or Democrat. Why, while Trump was President, did he not finish building the wall to help stop the flow of illegal immigrants from coming in over the border, when he had the resources to complete the wall on his watch? And why is Biden and Kamala just sitting back and allowing these illegal immigrants to enter the US in herds? Because there is another election coming up soon, and they have to allow these scenes to be portrayed in order to help shape the minds of the voter here in the US. The American people need to wake up and stop fighting against each other, and work together to help vote for a Presidentsl Candidate who will actually do something to change the narrative at the Border and to help the American people here in the US first. What a mess on both watches, democrats and republicans!??

The hell with this…break out the tear gas and rubber bullets. Show these aholes they just can’t shove their way into OUR country! I feel for the people that were born into bad situations, but that’s not all this is! Like or hate his personality, our true president would have had most of the immigration system and problems fixed by now….assuming The Far Left Democrats didn’t keep slowing him down. Are there any non far left Democrats left anymore?

Wow! That was wild. Here in San Ysidro everything was calm and actually civil. People waited their turn. I live nearby so I saw it with my own eyes. People at las Americas outlet would pass by food to them and the officers gave them the food. I was an immigrant 35 years ago I am now a us citizens and although I love the USA, I will always remember the struggles I had to go through. The hunger, the injustice, the reject and the cultural assimilation, learning a new language, and work work work until I couldn’t no more. All those efforts paid off and I believe EVERYONE has a right to have a better life. I have family members in Canada and Europe who are also immigrants and also go through these struggles. If they don’t make it to the USA, I hope the Mexican government takes advantage of this immigration influx, after all, the USA is great because of us. It’s time other countries take advantage and advance as well ??

If these people are using asylum as their reason for leaving their own countries of origin why are they not applying for asylum in the first country that they invaded that does offer asylum protection, Instead they travel straight thru to invade our country and burden Americans and selfishly block legal entry immigrants and selfishly block all Americans homeless in the streets because of their willing to work for less wages disruptive to Americans from being able to support ourselves house ourselves because resources designed for helping us has been diverted to illegal aliens invading our country because the truth is that it's an invasion from 150 some odd countries and even housing is using excuses to remove Americans from participating in housing aid for the soul purpose of creating space for them by ousting Americans from taxpayers dollars design for being used on us

Canada is moving people urgently from Ukraine , Syria, India, China... but seems like a struggle to bring in immigrants from the south end of this continent, insane.

*I guess no one is mentioning the most absurd fact here: THESE PEOPLE ARE FROM VENEZUELA!!!?? Venezuela is 2700 MILES and TEN COUNTRIES AWAY from El Paso! That means that 100% of these people are not asylum seekers nor refugees, they are economic migrants and have ZERO right to even attempt entry in to America legal or otherwise, as they have traversed across 10 SAFE COUNTRIES where their asylum needs were met. And starting off the first seconds of your entry in to a host country by molesting its National sovereignty and disregarding its laws makes you a scum fuck who doesn’t deserve to be here. If you really needed asylum, you would go to the next safe country. The moment you are safe and choose to go further, is the moment you are no longer a refugee or asylum seeker, but a greedy selfish chooser pretending to be a beggar. The irony is, america takes in MORE LEGAL MIGRANTS THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH AS IT IS. The only people who benefit from our failing immigration system/border are the elites who get an unending supply of cheap labor to throw in to whatever thresher they need filled, and the illegal aliens themselves who just want money and don’t care whose society they have to stomp on to get it. And all it costs is basic rule of law, functional governance, a loss of fairness on the part of legal immigrants, clogged up systems for genuine refugees, and the native working class of America have to compete with foreigners for low skilled jobs and their taxes get siphoned off with every illegal migrant that enters the nation. Somehow no one in politics has the stomach to do mass deportation nor border defense, hmm I wonder why? (Looks over at elites’ thresher) If you are from Venezuela and claiming to be seeking asylum at America’s border, WHILE STANDING IN MEXICO where you could seek asylum and choose not to, then you’re a liar and a piece of shit. These hordes of fighting age men raping my country make Trump look better and better by the moment. Sincerely, a left winger whose tired of this fuckery.*

Our country is in shambles yet the progressive democrats want to hand out another 31 trillion in US tax dollars to people who won’t pay a cent to our country, who don’t care if they topple america and won’t fight for their own country. Put troops on the border and physically enforce the border. It’s not fair that there’s Europeans and Asians and Arabs who have to wait to legally immigrate meanwhile South American countries pound our southern border with drugs, illegal prostitution of young women and children. Build the wall, take any illegals as attackers of this nation.

This is what happens when you allow people to break immigration laws for decades. Now they don’t even pretend to care about the law.

The situation looks bad in Venezuela and I see the desperation in some of these people's faces. At the same time we can't just allow mass imigration like that into the country. There are laws and regulations that need to be followed. If we were to just allow a mass immmigration in like that without properly going through the immigration system there would be chaos to follow. It is also a slap in the face to those who have gone through the proper process and have waited years to get through legally.

I'm appalled not so much at the immigrants, but at the mess that the US has for an immigration system. These border points should have been closed, period, except for the people that work legally across the border until the system is reformed.

I dont know why the heck everybody seems to hate black people, even immigrants like us, however what is still difficult for me to understand is black people hating themselves, like Jamaicans hating Africans! Dude i will never get to understand that! Crazy wicked godless World we live in!

Im mexican and Im sick of immigrants. Our country doesn't have the resources to take them in, and a lot of them just cause harm to our people, robbing and even hurting them, like the guy that hit a kid with a brick in the head ? not to mention, they are ungreteful af, they complain that they get beans to eat. I totally get why americans don't want them there

That’s why you have poor people at war with illegal immigrants in nyc and Chicago. They’re being treated better than Americans because the politicians want their votes. Keep voting blue.

The US government is not care about this Invasion that's happening to us. If these people don't have to obey the immigration laws why should I have to obey the tax laws

Look at the way these people conduct themselves, these are the kind of people you want in your neighborhood??? Give me a fuckin break!!! Send them all back is what I say. America has enough problems right now as it is why add more to it. There's no housing, jobs or enough food to sustain that amount of illegal immigrants and that's a fact. This is beyond ridiculous. If you disagree just look at how the ones that are already here behave and the level of respect they have for your country, tell me they are doing anything productive or good for your communities... EXACTLY.

Jesus christ when will this be called what it is, its an invasion! The military should be there in mass force to repel these people. No one is entitled to a place here, if you wanna come then do it legally and the right way like the rest of real immigrants. Its a slap in the face to us that did it the right way and followed the rule of law.

Animals demanding their way into my country. I say immigration starts to randomly check people identification even the obvious US citizens so nobody gets their feelings hurt. Think of all the new jobs being created for ice.

Immigration -coming to live permanently in a foreign country.\nInvasion-an incursion by a large number of people

There is a much better way to stop them, start using it! This is an invasion and therefor a declaration of war! These are the people crossing into our country, already law breakers now they’re showing the violent side! I have no compassion for any of them, I am a LEGAL IMMIGRANT!!

It’s so messed up to see the same people who are ice and immigration are immigrants themselves traitors ??

You know though it's really not an immigration problem it's a political and economic problem. People wouldn't migrate like that if both places were the same....... fight immigration or go fight the corruption in their system? Mexican statehood little by little?

Asylum seeking is legal and in our laws. These folks have walked from Venezuela to escape dire conditions and a corrupt government. The overwhelming majority of these immigrants are good people looking for work and a new life. What would you do for your children? This isn't about immigration is it? This is about your hate for folks you perceive as beneath you. How dare they come here, right?

We barely have enough affordable homes and homelessness is on the rise. Illegal immigration should be a felony crimes like any other. we came here legally and waited 5 years to be an American why should these people we treated be differently? Go here legally.

Where are they gonna go????? 30 million new homeless people???? This isn't what elis island stood for. This isint peaceful immigration into a nation its savage invasion. They see a better life for them and don't care who it hurts because literally even the smallest uptick in quality of life would be preferable to them. We need to send them back and adress the issues that brought them.

As an immigrant to the US and having contact with canadians, North americans are among the most fake and two facing people out there. In fact Canadians are worse.

Were a broken country, people who tell these immigrants to come here are lying amd misinformed. We can barely take care of our own. They have been lied to and we cannot just let them in. The american citizen cannot support any more illigals. Fly them back home.

People tired an waking up to who the real immigrants are here today the terrorists named pilgrims an their anchor babies of today here in what they have made borders after their invasion to perpetuate their murdering raping and theft of what never was theirs to this day they have no shame wish they would really look at themselves in mirror

All of those people that cross illegally are detained and returned. Don't be fooled by the scare tactics they use every single time it's getting close to elections. Then if they win, you hear nothing about it for three years. Immigration, gays, abortion and police funding or defunding are the tactics these idealess Republicans use only when it's time to vote. Or did illegal immigration stop under trump? Or LGBTQ community? Or abortion? It's all bullshit. They don't show the days and nights when literally no one is crossing the border.

There’s nothing more ignorant then when people like this come to our country whether legally or illegally and then while living here they wave a big damn flag of their country of origin and talk about how great and awesome their country of origin is…..oh yeah? Then why did you run away from it? What a bunch of ignorant dumb assess…..if your gonna be here at least don’t be so proudly waving your country’s flag like if that peace of shit country did anything for you. This is America and yes America is founded by immigrants of all types but while this country gives you everything the only flag that you should be proudly waving is the American flag and nothing else, or at the very least the American flag should be the biggest flag you should be waving and try to learn some English, that way you don’t feel like people are taking advantage of you. If you were grateful and somewhat smart the last thing you wanna do is wave some other flag other then the American flag.

Many legal immigrants put much efforts into following US law and their ability development that can be helpful for US. Why accepting illegal people? it is insulting to many illegal immigrants. Trump is right.

Ive been working my ass off to pay for my documents for legality, paid taxes yearly and just comply to whatever is needed for immigration. Now im a US citizen. And this people just think they can just walked in without legal papers pisses me off. Come on people we all have different struggles in life, but we have to do the right thing! Even if youre inside the US you cannot have a decent job and no company is gonna accept you if you dont have legal papers. Therefore you cannot open a bank account and you cannot build your credit and get a place to stay. Theres too many homeless here already. Just do the right thing! The govt cannot save you all.

We cant save all these people, we can’t allow entry to people right now when we have so many internal problems. Close them and focus on the US first then double back to the immigrants, but as this moment we can’t do anything for them

Immigrants take half of the resources up. Food banks homeless shelters. Let them go back and suffer. America has so much tax why are they b***** ?? everyone is racist here. Please people help me out

Let them in. The only people afraid of immigration are xenophobes and people that have been duped into believing and repeating the rhetoric of a xenophobe.

Canada ?? is the best country in the world for new and young immigrants. For older people go elsewhere.

We just had some illegal immigrant from MS13 murder and completely dismember a door dash delivery driver where i live. And now were letting more of the people from the worst places into our county. Americans have become so accepting and open minded that their brains have literally fallen out of their heads... We are self destructing at this point. We've had enough acceptance we've taken in more immigrants than any other country on Earth. Let them go somewhere else anywhere but here.?‍? America is maxed out on poor uneducated people we don't need any more.

Same problem year after year. How can the government send troops and aid overseas but barley lift a finger to stabilize the countries below us. Solving the immigration problem starts with going to the root of the problem or else people will keep trying to flood in

US at this point can't help it's own homeless people plus thousands of immigrants will come soon... Continue to spend money on ukraine and Elenski war criminal, government doesn't give a shit about regular Americans. Good luck to you guys!

This is called an invasion. These people have no connection to America. They do not share our culture in any significant way. Build the Wall. Fully militarize the Southern Border. Abolish immigration entirely.

The world is full, everyone is struggling in America ,Europe, England and Ireland and can't house their own people, homeless is on the rise and immigration is not helping. \nMore people are getting hooked on Drugs than ever before and Empathy is sadly a lost word in today's world. \n???

The last few mass shootings have all been immigrants .. They got here being promised they would not have to work and the us taxpayers will cover their bills.\n\nWell after they are bussed to a state , not of their choosing and dumped they realize it was all a lie . \nNot only is no one helping them but they can't find work or housing bc there is a huge shortage here ..\n\nSo they find themselves much worse off in America then they had it in their own country . When the immigrant finally realized all of this and snaps he takes it out on innocent people ... \n\nIt's not surprising .. They flee trying to get to America bc their told everything will be given to them . They get here and find it's a total lie and hit rock bottom . They would rather kill many, many American citizens as a way to push back and be happy to do it because at least in jail they will have a roof over their head and three meals a day.

Incompetent people elected incompetent president like Biden.\nBiden promoted that immigration laws be ignore and mock!!!

500K per year?!? As an immigrant myself I find it ridiculous, sure we have lots of space but certainly don't have either the infrastructure nor the money to accomodate that much people. The liberals are either out of their freaking minds or looking for more votes.

We need better immigration policy. These illegal swarms are unsafe. Build a wall to protect the border from illegal crossing, make people cross at ports, streamline deportation and asylum requests and staff up the courts.

As a Mexican, I wish my goverment could take a more serious stand on illegal immigrants.\n\nNot only USA but México are being invaded by people who do not want to work, in multiple interviews by Mexican TV most of the venezuelans say so.\n\nSo different from the Hatians who have integrated in Mexican society getting jobs and opening bussiness legally.\n\nHere is the coverage:\nhttps://youtu.be/SOzidWQv85c