A legal immigrant from Trinidad who became a U.S.citizen after nearly a decade-long process told Fox News Digital that birth tourism and illegal immigration are a "slap in the face" to those who came to America the right way.Kris Ramsingh, a Virginia business owner who immigrated in 2006 and became a citizen in 2015, said his own experience becoming an American shaped his support for President Donald Trump's immigration policies."When you see that people come across the border, whether it's [to] have a baby for an anchor, or come across to border and get free healthcare, [or] free school, it's really a slap in the face to the people who have worked really hard to come into this country the legal way," he told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.Unlike those who enter the country illegally, Ramsingh said he was required to satisfy a series of federal immigration requirements before becoming a U.S.
citizen.'WEAPONS OF MASS REPRODUCTION': WATCHDOG UNVEILS ACTION PLAN TO CURB BIRTH TOURISM AFTER SUPREME COURT RULINGThe Mill Mountain Star dots the Roanoke skyline in Virginia.(Jeff Greenberg/Getty Images)As part of the legal immigration process, federal authorities required Ramsingh to provide proof of certain vaccines, personal documentation, a criminal background check and proof of a bank account to demonstrate he would not become a ward of the state."America doesn't owe us anything," Ramsingh said of legal immigrants like himself.
"Our government here doesn't owe us anything.We have the privilege of coming into this country where it’s a holiday visa or for school."Ramsingh said the week of Independence Day also marks the anniversary of his and his wife's arrival in the U.S.
in 2006 with just $300 and a few suitcases."I have lived in Roanoke all of those 20 years since," he said from his Dominion Custom Upholstery business not too far from the city’s famed Mill Mountain Star.WORLD CUP SOCCER FANS ARE DISCOVERING AMERICA’S GREATNESS.IT’S TIME AMERICANS ...