I didn't lie. I said "a passport and visa is easy to get if your skin color is the right shade of white" which does not mean it is impossible to get otherwise.
Try getting an immigration visa as an Indian or a Chinese vs. being an Australian or from the UK, and tell me with a straight face that it is just as easy to get for the former as the latter. Now try that getting that visa as a white Mexican vs a non-white Mexican. American immigration policy is still implicitly racist, and the only reason immigration is skewed that way is because of demand for immigrating into the USA in the first place.
If your family has been in the USA for a few generations, your ancestors more than likely came here as undocumented. Its just now a certain segment of "got mine, scr*w you" America wants to call those same people as illegal immigrants.
Try getting an immigration visa as an Indian or a Chinese vs. being an Australian or from the UK, and tell me with a straight face that it is just as easy to get for the former as the latter. Now try that getting that visa as a white Mexican vs a non-white Mexican. American immigration policy is still implicitly racist, and the only reason immigration is skewed that way is because of demand for immigrating into the USA in the first place.
If your family has been in the USA for a few generations, your ancestors more than likely came here as undocumented. Its just now a certain segment of "got mine, scr*w you" America wants to call those same people as illegal immigrants.