Leftists keep trying to blur the lines between legal and illegal immigration — and those of us who came to this country the right way have had enough.

CNN polling guru Harry Enten on Tuesday broke down some recent survey numbers on foreign-born Americans, that is, legal immigrants.

They showed the biggest swing toward Republicans on immigration of any voter group.

In 2020, foreign-born Americans trusted Democrats more on immigration by 32 percentage points.

Today they trust Republicans more by 8 points — a huge 40-point shift.

In 2016, 36% of immigrants voted for Donald Trump.

That number grew to 47% in 2024.

This should be no surprise: Legal immigrants, who waited their turn and struggled to become Americans, have little in common with those who broke the law to arrive in our country ready for someone to take care of them — and are increasingly angered by politicians who coddle the criminals.

Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, an immigrant from Colombia, echoed this sentiment Wednesday.

“I followed the process to come into this country legally, and by definition if you didn’t follow that process, if you cut the lines, you’ve broken our laws,” he told ABC News.

“If you’re in this country illegally, you need to go.”

There are “millions of people waiting in line to come to this country legally,” Moreno said — and the current system rewards those who skipped the line at their expense.

People long to live in the American dream.

That dream does not include setting things on fire when you don’t get your way.

It doesn’t encompass looting or throwing rocks at government officials, as occurred over the last few days in Los Angeles as rioters went wild against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

But Democrats just don’t get it.

For example, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker approvingly posted a video from TikToker Vivian Tu, who argued against deporting “undocumented immigrants” because they “do the jobs Americans won’t do.”

“The tagline ‘made in America’ is made by immigrants,” she declares smugly.

Of course that’s not true — not everything made in America is made by immigrants — but note how Tu conveniently switches the terms of her rant, from “undocumented immigrants” to just “immigrants.”

That’s what burns those of us who are legal immigrants: Being lumped together with people who broke the law and cut the line is galling.

Every legal immigrant in this country has a story to tell about the difficult process they went through, the wait they had to endure — only to have to watch people stream across the border by the millions during the Biden administration.

There were no prepaid debit cards or free hotel rooms for us.

Someone had to “sponsor” us, and we had to promise we would not accept any public funds.

There was a system in place and we followed it.

And the chaotic, no-rules situation of the last few years has harmed those trying their best to follow the law.

My mother’s sister, who lived in Russia until her recent death, was repeatedly denied a tourist visa to come visit her family here in America — presumably due to concern that she would stay here once it expired, as so many do, and become a public burden.

My mom watched the deluge at the border with sorrow and fury, knowing my aunt could just hop a flight to Mexico and walk in — but that would be illegal, and something we would never consider.

Russian-language social media groups will sometimes include a post from a would-be immigrant asking for advice on “birth tourism” or other ways of jumping the line into America.

This invariably enrages those in the group who came to the US legally — and the responses are often fierce, expressed in language that can’t be printed in a family newspaper.

We’re Americans, goes the message.

Don’t come here asking us for advice on how to break our laws.

That’s the key difference between those who followed the rules to emigrate from the lands of their birth and those waving large Mexican flags on the burning streets of Los Angeles.

We didn’t come here to wave some other country’s flag.

We came here to be American, to live the American dream and to raise American children.

Legal immigrants don’t simply accept people out to undermine the orderly immigration process.

We did it the right way, they say; others should too.

For every sad media-amplified story about a hard-working person who fears deportation because they’re not here legally, Americans should understand that at least five more people, equally hard-working, are out there waiting their turn, trying to follow the rules and immigrate the right way.

Those who wish to be Americans shouldn’t defy our laws to do it.

Karol Markowicz is the host of the “Karol Markowicz Show” and “Normally” podcasts.