‘No one’s illegal. They should just be able to come’.
Award-winning rock singer Linda Ronstadt, whose career has been peppered with political controversies, told an Arizona newspaper the U.S. border with Mexico should be wide open.
“There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration,” she said in an interview with the Arizona Republic published over the weekend. “People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one’s illegal. They should just be able to come.”
She argued the U.S. allows Cubans to come as refugees.
“Well, in Cuba – I’ve been there, you know – people are fed, people are housed, people are clothed. There isn’t violence in the streets. Here, people are coming from places where there’s just terrible violence. Parts of Mexico that are incredibly violent, and Honduras, which is just unspeakably violent right now,” Ronstadt said.
She said the Central American children “are just fleeing for their lives, their parents are just sending them out because it’s the only way that they have of living – into a terrible, dangerous journey and an uncertain future in the United States that is populated with people that seem to hate them – that’s how desperate they are.”
Last month, Ronstadt was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Obama.
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