If I wanted to live in Mexico, I would have moved there long ago. However, when we allow people to immigrate, we must be careful about the quality of the people we put on a path to citizenship. The enemies of liberty want citizens who are low intelligence and who are disposed to be malleable and pliable to be supporters of liberal programs and to become dependent upon Big Government “benefits”.
We are committing cultural suicide by allowing people in to our country in such quantities that they don’t have to assimilate.
However we decide to deal with people who came here in violation of our long-standing laws, we must NEVER grant such people the right to vote. This is for two reasons: to thwart those politicians who sought to import one-party voters, and second as a matter of principle. The law must mean something because it is for good reason. Otherwise we soon won’t have a country worth living in, as people in parts of France are finding out.
And I speak as someone who has a son in law who is from Asia and who loves liberty and who will make a fine citizen when the day comes.
attaining the full right of U.S. citizenship should be a multi-generational process ,and so codified with amendments to the U.S. Constitution . Legal immigration into the USA should be allowed on a closely monitored and limited basis . Anyone violating terms of their initial immigration would be black-listed and never allowed to attain to full citizenship , even if they were not deported for whatever infraction . Once an immigrant completes a 10 year period and shows complete proficiency in English language ( reading,writing& speaking) they can apply for U.S. citizenship , at which time they will have to further demonstrate a detailed knowledge of U.S. history and civics . Such 1st generation U.S. immigrants, those born abroad , should NEVER be granted the right to vote in U.S. national elections , or run for any elected office . That right ( to vote) should begin to occur in those children , born in the USA to legal immigrant parents , after the age of 25 , or after the age of 18 if they have served or are serving in the US Armed Services . Children born abroad ( even over the border ) and legally brought into the USA should be required to fall under the classifications of their 1st generation immigrant parents . The rights to vote only begin to appear in the generation of their own USA born children . There should be ZERO amnesty . If a person from any country is found to be living in the USA illegally , for whatever reason or rationale , they should be politely escorted out of the country , along with their entire family ( we do not want to break up families...) for that first offense . If they are discovered to have returned , then those people should be arrested and assigned to minimum wage paid work detention , building our border boundaries , fences , walls , etc ; for a period of 3 years . With monies earned being able to be sent to relatives in whatever country they come from . Minors in their company should be immediately returned to relatives designated in their countries of origin . Anyone determined to be an illegal alien in this country and found to have committed felony acts that result in the death of US citizens should be summarily executed ( by hanging) , without appeal or any chance of simple incarceration . Change the Constitution , and end ‘student visas’ let them study in their own countries , not ours .