This is essentially the profile of the group who were going to attack the UFC event at the White House. They realized that they’d been duped, and decided to take things into their own hands.

And when the critical factor for being able to choose immigration over death/incarceration is money… Well, a lot of us simply don’t get a choice.

My engineer friend is halfway through the immigration process. Me? I have a solid 9 to 5 that I bust my ass at every day but I don’t have enough money for gas to get to the border, much less to immigrate.

I’ll never be an immigrant, and not by choice.

When the time comes, if I’m very VERY lucky, I might live long enough to become a refugee. That’s my only alternative to your alternative.