Do you always dehumanize people or just when bored on the internet? |
That can be true with refugees but the government provides them with free money to get them started out so they're not really starting out with 5 dollars either. |
My family came as refugees. We were provided 4 months of support and then it was welfare, Pell grants, Medicaid and other things that would normally be available to poor people who were born in US. My parents ended up middle class, the kids, including me, UMC. The grandparents never worked, got SSI, Medicaid and Section 8 apartment, and that’s how they lived ... way better than the home country. |
No one is talking about these days. Go back to the 60's and 70's. |
PP. oh, and about sponsorship. We were sponsored by a non-profit that paid for our plane tickets. That was a loan and we had to repay it. Also, I know many families where “sponsorship” was mutually understood as on paper only, I.e. the sponsor did a huge favor by signing the paperwork but the immigrants did not expect or receive any money. |
I am from a country that did just that - collectivized the assets (and killed a few rich people in the process). You know what happens next? You run out of rich people’s money and when the hunger games begin, your comrades devour you. Why you personally? Because if you don’t have what it takes to live a middle class life in US, you won’t survive socialism. Take it from someone who’s been there. |
I’m a Vietnamese and came here with 5 dollar |
This times a ton. Many here have no idea of how brutal things are in so many countries. This is easy street comparatively. |
Sounds like immigration fraud. Sounds like they should have their citizenship stripped and deported. Sounds like the sponsors need to go to prison. |
Sounds like you're already drunk. |
+1 |
The level of ignorance here about the immigrant experience in America is astounding. OP you are way off base. You want to destroy the biggest wealth creator in human history, and replace it with China, where they are mass interning minorities and stealing their land and mineral wealth to fuel the CCP, or Cuba where people are in abject poverty? Europe has a nice lifestyle but is incredibly racist. I'm a minority and have been there and can attest.
Immigrants work their BUTTS off, and are super grateful to be here. That doesn't mean America doesn't have problems, but if we can come together as a country and cooperate at the local state and federal level, we will continue to make progress. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-06/hispanic-american-incomes-rising-faster-than-any-other-group-s?sref=sQS1Uxqt https://www.newsweek.com/immigrant-founded-fortune-500-companies-us-gdp-1450498 |
Multiple people have gone off about this but it doesn't change the fact that the truly wealthy are usually a-hats who convince themselves that they deserve to be rich, no one else worked as hard as they do or their immigrant parents did (who came here with $1 and walked to and from their four jobs with no shoes uphill every day). Yes, it is a nice thing to be born in the US compared to *some* other places, but it doesn't mean there aren't many, many people here who are living through great hardship. Fact is, if you are wealthy, you got lucky in some way. Tons of people work as hard or (likely) harder than you do every day and will never make six figures. Tons of people have immigrant parents who worked four jobs and they are their kids never became wealthy. Tons of people live good, honest lives and will never be wealthy. If you are wealthy, you should be thankful for your good fortune, give back as much as you can, and stop believing you "deserve" this more than others. You don't. These myths about your life you tell yourself are just the way you soothe your (in some of your cases, vanishingly small) conscience. |
What you described is literal immigration fraud. |
+1 ITA And even if the immigrant doesn't make it, their offsprings can. |