Asking DC locals: Would you let an illegal immigrant stay in your house?
Luke Gentile
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Would you let an illegal immigrant stay in your home?
With the expiration of Title 42 Thursday at 11:59 p.m., border officials are now expecting to face an unprecedented surge of migrants crossing from Mexico into the United States.
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Once in the country, illegal immigrants disperse across major cities, including Washington, D.C., and many have nowhere to stay.
We asked DC locals if they would let an illegal immigrant stay with them at their home, and the answers ranged from laughing “NO!” to “I’d give them the shirt off my back.”
Younger residents appeared more receptive to the idea of housing an illegal immigrant, and few even said they would be willing to cover the total expenses a migrant would require to make their way into and through the country.
American citizens have an “obligation” to help illegal immigrants to their country because “it’s a human right” for them to live where they want, according to one resident.
“Not allowing immigrants into our country goes against what our founding fathers stood for,” another said.
One self-identified “broke college student” said she would let an illegal immigrant sleep on her floor.
“America is built on immigration,” she said. “Like, essentially, no one is actually from the U.S. So, if we don’t take care of the people who come to the U.S., what’s the point?”
Other locals disagreed strongly.
“There are a lot of folks in America, a lot of us aren’t even from here, but I do believe whoever is gonna enter the country, they should do that the right way … I don’t think any other country would be to happy to let us in illegally,” one resident said.
When told that some have suggested that citizens of cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, and DC, should open their doors to illegal immigrants, he shook his head in disbelief.
“My people, my own family members, they have to go to a hotel,” he said. “So, I don’t think that it makes sense to expect that people would want to just let someone into their home where they sleep, they’re intimate, they worship, they have children, and you don’t know these people.”
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“That doesn’t make any sense at all.”
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