> Everything from citizens having more vested interest (skin in the game) in the future of their lands than noncitizens An illegal immigrant from a poor countr

> Everything from citizens having more vested interest (skin in the game) in the future of their lands than noncitizens An illegal immigrant from a poor country sells everything, and by a stroke of luck is successful in coming to the US. Then they spend some time there (say 15 years). Surely they have more to lose than a legal qualified immigrant (now a citizen) that spent some 8 years jumping through the hoops? The qualified immigrant could just pick a country at random and have reasonable chance of starting over, while the minimum wage illegal can't do the same (and so has to hope the country doesn't crap itself). >protection of shared cultural heritage How much cultural heritage does a white protestant factory worker share with an illegal Chinese immigrant? Is it more or less than they share with legal Chinese programmer who had recently been granted a citizenship?