My family, born and bred in Ukraine, came to America the right way.
They didn’t join a caravan of thousands of people near the Mexican border, climb a wall, cross a river, or enter America illegally.
The year was 1965, and in order to be able to live in the United States, my family identified sponsors in New York State who would take them in, had to learn the language, and show how they were going to find gainful employment.
When my Baba, my grandmother, passed away, I found her old notebooks when she attended English classes in order to learn the language most spoken in the United States.
It reminded me of the rudimentary, old school “Dick and Jane” books kids used to read.
My Baba Anna wound up working for decades as a janitor at a hospital, while my Dido, my grandfather, worked as a handyman at the same facility.
They were the perfect immigrants who came here to the United States legally: they learned the language, found jobs, paid taxes, and eventually became citizens.
My family coming here the right and legal way is a reason why I strongly support legal immigration. Our great nation is much stronger when we welcome those who want to come here for a better life, who want to work hard, become citizens, and plant the seeds of the American Dream for generations to come.
You can imagine my anger at the news that our economy added a massive amount of jobs for illegal immigrants, while natural born Americans lost jobs. It’s a story you’ll see in this edition of the South Shore Press from rock solid reporter Deborah Williams. She’s been hitting it out of the park on state and national stories.
Illegal immigrants by definition are here illegally and should be shipped back to their country of origin, no questions asked. Their mere presence here in America is breaking the law. They should not be rewarded with cell phones, debit cards, benefits, and our jobs.
This is a slap in the face to hard-working American taxpayers, the “forgotten man and woman,” who remain unemployed while illegal immigrants take their jobs.
The Biden Administration and radical progressive democrats favor wide open borders for another devious reason: they believe these illegal immigrants will register as Democrats once they are allowed to legally vote in the United States.
There are consequences for President Biden pushing hard to keep the southern border wide open. The Democrats are building a new voting bloc to keep them in office for decades to come. Plus already struggling American families remain unemployed while illegal immigrants take their jobs.
It’s bad enough you’re hard-earned tax dollars are paying off the student loan debts of gender studies and philosophy majors of students on Ivy League campuses and across the country.
Adding insult to injury, job prospects for American-born citizens remain challenging, while illegal immigrants are getting our jobs left and right when they shouldn’t even be here in the first place.
Wake up America and choose wisely this November.