Let’s be civil, create path to citizenship

The majority of Americans disapprove of the current immigration deportations in a Quinnipiac Poll released June 26, 2025. A number of 64% of those polled believe undocumented immigrants should be given a pathway to citizenship in the U.S. This should be allowed to those undocumented immigrants who are illegally residing in the United States who have not committed any crimes and who have children born in this country who cannot fend for themselves if their parents are deported. It will leave them and this country with responsibilities for the government and taxpayers and children with no one to provide for them.

Furthermore, removing undocumented immigrants takes away from revenue generated by businesses run by them. Their lives uprooted from America where such people have lived for decades, establishing a life and livelihood and families and returned to a country unfamiliar to them.

I have worked closely with undocumented immigrants over the years and have found that they feel themselves as American citizens who are loyal, prideful, responsible, industrious, law biding people who are only trying to survive. These are everyday people like myself who pay taxes but are alienated from any government assistance, health benefits under the Affordable Health Act and Social Security benefits, though they pay into it out of their income which is typically lower than that of an American citizen.

As an American citizen in a country where democracy still exists, I am voicing my concerns as to immigration deportations without empathy nor compassion to people who offer that in turn to America and Americans. A few bad apples do not justify a complete condemnation of good people trying to survive in a country that is respected and renowned for its civil rights which has improved over generations of Americans. Please, let’s be civil to civil human beings.

John Wyatt

Schaumburg