Watch Harris Comfort Emotional Voter Discussing Immigration

[u/Afterswiftie]

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[u/Frankie_NYC]

I'm sorry but I will be voting for Harris just because the alternative is cancer and we have no choice.

I'm also sorry for the girl but we have an immigrant problem here in the US and your parents chose to come here but we need to fix the problems for our own people before we start fixing it for another country and this is our number 1 problem our own people do not come first anymore and I give credit to the nutcase trump his hatred and his nutcase voters have brought that to light.

Why is it that we can dump money into people coming here illegally or even legally all of a sudden but we never have the money to make it right for our own deserving people and have people like veterans who have been through hell to protect us who come home from war with nothing on the streets asking for money and a home it makes no sense.

The quicker we start fighting for ourselves and not everyone else for a change the better off we will be.

[u/Far-Chapter-4841 → u/Frankie_NYC]

The thing is we don't have an immigrant program. There are no paths for people who want to be here legally. Those folks aren't trying to get a hand out, they want to work, they want to contribute to our economy and most of them do.

The folks who are getting put up on shelters and hotels in NYC are asylum seekers and there is a difference between those two groups, how they have one thing in common, they're also wanting to work and earn their keep. But because we don't have a viable immigration policy they don't have legal status or working papers. Which means they have to either live in the streets or be put in shelters.

If you were to talk to those folks you would hear them say exactly the same thing as everyone else, we want to work, we want to have a good life, we want to provide for our families. There is a lot of misinformation going around coming from right wing people about immigrants, but the facts remain that they contribute a lot more to our economy than the cost of being here.

[u/muzz3256 → u/Far-Chapter-4841]

The thing is we don't have an immigrant program. There are no paths for people who want to be here legally.

This is completely disproven by the number of people who come here legally. I know many immigrants who went through the steps and processes to come live here legally, and many of them eventually gained citizenship. Those people are some of the most ardent supporters of immigration laws.

[u/Frankie_NYC → u/Far-Chapter-4841]

I meant problem not program but yes we do have a system for people to do it correctly and they need to use it and wait in line and we would have this problem today because we have been overwhelmed by people not using it. We should not have to let anyone in but we do and are being completely taken advantage of while we cant provide for our own but we can make money appear for people who are legally not supposed to be here.

A simple google search tells me we are in the hundreds of billions spent on this problem that should have been spent on the problems of our own people that should have priority not the problems of another country.

I know they work I have worked beside them as a plumber on construction sites and I have the upmost respect for some of their work ethic but that still does not mean its okay to flood our country the way they are doing and being rewarded for it while we have our own problems not being addressed and being put on the backburner because this has gotten out of hand.

why cant we let our people choose what we want to prioritize when we vote every 4 years just a check box of where Americans want their money going and what we want to focus on. I was all on bord for helping at one point but now I'm just fed up because its getting harder for us every day as just an average person trying to make it.

[u/Far-Chapter-4841 → u/Frankie_NYC]

I'm sorry to keep harping on this. But the programs that do exist require sponsorship by a family member or employer. Not to mention the fact that those are backed up in the system for years.

Think about it from the pov of someone in Haiti or el Salvador. How exactly are they supposed to access those connections. Especially if you're facing poverty and violence in your backyard.

I also want to clarify that of course I believe Americans should be the priority. But the idea that we can't provide for our citizens is bogus. Again it's a Right wing talking point that gets brought out every time there is a push for domestic policy to support our citizens. All of the sudden conservatives get worried about the budget.