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'We're Not Hypothetical': Immigrants In The U.S. Illegally Speak Out
If we just end incentive, these illegals would leave.
Screw amnesty!
More crap at link.Jin Park remembers where he was when Donald Trump announced his presidential bid in June, 2015. He was alone in his Harvard dorm room and watching Trump on TV.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump told the crowd at New York's Trump Tower, "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
Then he proposed a wall along the United States border with Mexico.
"I watched that and had this realization that this guy is serious about what he wants to do. I had an instinct to immediately call my parents," Park said, "I was pretty scared."
Park isn't Mexican, but he is in the country illegally. So are his parents. They brought him to the U.S. from South Korea on a temporary visa when he was seven, just in time to start second grade in Queens, N.Y. When their plan for permanent residency fell through, they decided to overstay the visa.
"This is just one part of myself," said Park, 20. But it has influenced him: He wants to go to medical school to treat people who can't access health care.
"My dad, when I was in third or fourth grade, he had a really bad burn from the restaurant," Park recalled. "We dealt with that together at home. It's something I think about a lot."
When he heard Trump's plans for illegal immigration, he saw how his own plans could unravel.
"I'm going to fight to not be deported. If that literally means chaining myself to the gate here, I'm going to do that," Park said. "It's my home."
If we just end incentive, these illegals would leave.
Screw amnesty!