I do not support welfare, SS, or any kind of socialism. I also don’t support illegal immigration but rather better diplomacy.
I have not heard of that scenario (elderly foreign parents getting PR and full benefits) is there somewhere I can read about this? If so that’s trippy but consider this:
IMO non-Americans take care of their elderly. Often they live multiple generations under one roof: parents who bring home the bacon, children who grown and learn, and grandparents who stay home and take care of the children while the parents are out working. When the grandparents are old it is their turn to be taken care of by the rest of the family. This is ideal and just feels “right” to me: we take care of one another generation after generation.
In America, we have day care and social security for that so we don’t need to rely on our families. We have retirement homes and medicare to make sure we’re healthy when we’re old. We have satellite families where everyone is off doing their own thing in their American independent way, and the family as a unit is too spread out to be functional: I.e. we are dysfunctional satellite families and welfare or SS support this. So you might say that welfare and SS perpetuate family dysfunction. In the old days if someone in your family is hungry someone else in the family feeds them, that’s what holds families together and lets them thrive.
Finally, If you are a legal U.S. citizen then I welcome you and your whole family and thank you for coming here, you’re one of us now and have added to our diversity so heck no we’re not going to turn your elderly parents away that’s one of the benefits of doing things legally, welcome to the team.
