Letter to the editor: Respect our longtime immigrants because they’ve earned it

Letter to the editor: Respect our longtime immigrants because they’ve earned it

According to a 2021 report by Pew Research Center, about two-thirds of unauthorized immigrants and 83% of all unauthorized immigrants from Mexico had lived here for more than 10 years, as of 2017. We, all of us, Democrats, Republicans, independents and others — all of us — let them in and we asked them to stay. We asked them to mow our lawns, to pick our crops, to work in our slaughterhouses, to clean our homes, to work in our restaurants, to cl…