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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the immigrants who were legalized by Reagan were able to get better jobs and higher incomes. None of them stopped working to get on welfare. Some of them did not become US citizens even though could, preferring to work here and then return to their home countries. [/quote]
Well maybe they were a [b]higher caliber 30 years ago. An[/b]d that's not a knock on the illegals alone....our entire electorate is lower in caliber than it was 30 years ago. If we were in the 1980s, there is no way we would be having an election between a narcissistic buffoon and a corrupt liar. These two would have been laughed off the political stage a year ago. But I digress....  [/quote]

This is true. Also there were not as many and many didnt migrate for economic reasons but of civil wars going on in their country. You got many who were affluent and already wealthy. The migrants today are economic migrants and of lower caliber and millions more than when reagan was president.[/quote]
Disagree. Number of Mexican illegal immigrants have decreased. More and more of the illegal immigrants from MX are now actually coming from C. America, escaping violent crime.  As Trump has stated, MX's manufacturing sector is booming. They don't need to come here for illegal jobs anymore. Yes, barely over 50% are from MX, but that has been declining.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/20/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/

"2  Mexicans made up 52% of all unauthorized immigrants in 2014, though their numbers had been declining in recent years. There were 5.8 million Mexican unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. that year, down from 6.4 million in 2009, according to the new Pew Research Center estimates.

3  The number of unauthorized immigrants from nations other than Mexico grew by 325,000 since 2009, to an estimated 5.3 million in 2014. Populations went up most for unauthorized immigrants from Asia and Central America, but the number also ticked up for those from sub-Saharan Africa. Increases in the number of unauthorized immigrants from other countries mostly offset the decline in the number from Mexico."[/quote]

No, you are wrong. I am the pp and hispanic as well. I know a lot of immigrants who arrived more than 30 yrs ago and many were not poor. Many of their children and parents also vote republican now (US born hispanics are more likely to vote republican). I knew many who flew over legally from south america, were from well to do families, knew a couple who were going to law school and med school here.  The difference is there IS NOT a war going on in central america now where guerrillas went into homes and killed families. The migrants I know from central america are economic migrants with family that lives in el salvador, honduras, guatemala whom they send  money over there to. They do try to get their younger boys out of CA because the gangs try to affiliate them. I imagine a lot also went to other central america countries to get away from crime and better opportunity but since it's easier and better economically to come to the US and they already have relatives here why woudln't they risk coming to the US?[/quote]

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