I don't know about you, but I don't remember choosing where to be born, I don't remember standing in the departure gates for California as a baby soul, waiting for some random conception.
My last European ancestor arrived in the U.S.A. in the mid nineteenth century. The majority of my ancestors didn't come here for the opportunity; they were fleeing horrors in Europe or English oppression. Few had any sort of immigration documentation, they jumped off the ship and hit the ground running.
My wife's family is in many ways more U.S. American than I am. Her ancestors were shoved out of the United States by force, fleeing to Mexico and Canada. They returned to the U.S.A. as immigrants in the twentieth century.
If the U.S.A. turns totally to shit, yes, I will walk. Legally or not.
It's in everyone's best interest that nations, including are own, don't turn to shit.
Everyone is a potential refugee, even within these United States.
During the Great Depression there were plenty of Californians willing to dehumanize refugees from other states.
"Oakies" and "white trash" were not terms of endearment.
Neither is "illegals."
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