Nonsense like this makes my blood boil. I can't bring over any of my relatives LEGALLY, because, in their wisdom, the house and the Senate voted to slash immigration from Europe and open the floodgates from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Asia. Why? Why not at least let the quotas be equal?
Plus, that's all legal immigration.
As was, btw, the mass immigration from Europe in the late 19th through early 20th century. American industry was roaring and those factories needed workers as did the builders of roads, buildings, etc. When they no longer needed them they shut the doors tight.
Also, when people came through Ellis Island they were checked for disease and either put in quarantine or sent back home.
America is a different place today. Our own factory workers have lost their well paying jobs and are told to make do with service jobs where the pay is barely over the minimum wage, and they face competition for those and other jobs because of the flood of ILLEGAL immigrants coming over the southern border.
When we came, in the second half of the twentieth century, the testing was even more rigorous: we all had to have complete physicals, including tests for TB and venereal diseases, all vaccinations had to be up to date, and political affiliations had to be checked and on and on. They had American agents going to our ancestral towns to check up on my father!
NONE OF THAT is happening on the southern border.
The first duty of any country is to protect its citizens. Good for DeSantis that he understands that.
