Legal immigrants, I have found, are often very patriotic. They chose this place. They paid their fees. They took the tests. They worked to understand our system and attempted to integrate themselves into it. People overstaying their visas and sneaking across the border are users and abusers of every system they find themselves in. They don’t give a shit about anything and they raise children that are crippled sheep, herded by flashing images on screens and whatever the TV tells them is cool and good. Legal American immigrants typically make a concerted effort to be a part of government - because where they come from that would have been impossible or meant persecution. This has been my experience.